My own little fortune (eight hundred a year) had been settled on myself when I married.

But, Auntie, you have paid away more than half your little fortune.

Assunta took care of all, and our little fortune increased.

It's now also a domestic struggle, with local stars complaining that they get little fortune from their own fame.

You need not worry about me selling my little fortune to the first gentleman who comes along.

That means she has a nice little fortune.

He will go to prison - true; but when he comes out, there will be a nice little fortune awaiting him.

"When you're not playing your best, you need a little fortune to keep going."

She has a modest little fortune, too,' he added, looking abstractedly at a tartan working into the port.

I was a poor boy then, as you know, and to a poor boy they were a little fortune.