They had concealed him in the town, meaning to have kept him there, being a very useful man; and if he could have had a small chest of medicines, he might soon have made a handsome fortune.
Morgan has acted throughout life, and a faithful persistence in carrying it out has resulted in building up a mammoth business and the consequent possession of a handsome fortune.
He is strict in fulfilling all his contracts, and in this way has acquired a fine reputation and a handsome fortune.
He succeeded in accumulating a handsome fortune, which consisted mostly in vessel stocks and in lands.
It is more than thirty years since Dorlan began business here, and he has amassed a handsome fortune.
The presents are frequently worth a handsome fortune.
Mr. Lucas was a grocer, who lived in Fore Street, and had acquired a handsome fortune by his trade.
Such beauty, such elegance of manners, so much wit; and I should suppose, from the style in which the Holmeses live, such a handsome fortune.
She is her own mistress, however; she is the widow of a general, yes, a real general, who actually lived and left her a handsome fortune and no children.
You are sixteen and a half years old, you belong to a noble family, you have a handsome fortune, and you pass your life beneath the roof of these village folk!
When a man has such a handsome fortune as that, it's perfectly ridiculous for him to pass his best years out at nurse!
Natalie, or the holder, could come into possession of a handsome fortune; but it was at the honesty of this whole-souled sailor.
Lavendale had been extravagant, but he had started with a handsome fortune in ready money, the accumulation of his minority.
New and pretty faces are always welcome at Court, and it became speedily known that the charms of this particular face were fortified by a handsome fortune.
When your father-in-law dies, you will come into a handsome fortune.
The one ambition of his life is to leave his daughter and the husband of her choice a handsome fortune; to attain this end, he keeps his expenses down as much as possible.
My father, being the possessor of a handsome fortune, might have lived in luxury and idleness.
Call it parsimony or economy, or what you will, in consequence of it Ramon is sure to leave his daughter a handsome fortune, though he will give her nothing during his lifetime.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handsome fortune" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
