fortune favoured

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• fortune — noun 1) fortune favoured him Syn: chance, accident, coincidence, serendipity, destiny, providence; N.Amer. happenstance 2) a change of fortune Syn: luck, fate, destiny, predestination …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• Fortune (Unix) — fortune is a simple program that displays a random message from a database of quotations. Most distributions of fortune are bundled with a collection of themed files, containing sayings like those found on fortune cookies (hence the name),… …   Wikipedia

• fortune favours the brave — Cf. ENNIUS Annals 257 (Vahlen) fortibus est fortuna viris data, fortune is given to brave men; VIRGIL Aeneid x. 284 audentes fortuna iuvat, fortune aids the bold. c 1385 CHAUCER Troilus & Criseyde IV. 600 Thenk ek Fortune, as wel thiselves woost …   Proverbs new dictionary

• India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …   Universalium

• Basset — Alternate uses, see List of dog breeds for several dog breeds known as Bassets, including the familiar Basset Hound. : See also Francis Basset (1715–1769) and Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset Basset (French Bassette , from… …   Wikipedia

• Basset (card game) — Basset Thomas Rowlandson, painted his version of a gaming den in The Hazard Room . On the walls is a bouquet of gambler’s delights: boxing, horse racing, the odds of the day, and the patron saint of card games, Edmond Hoyle …   Wikipedia

• History of Canterbury, New Zealand — Pre 1840 Maori Period= IntroductionProbably no more than 500 Māori were living in Canterbury when European settlement began in the 1840s. These Māori, part of the Ngāi Tahu tribe which occupied the South Island of New Zealand, were remnants of a… …   Wikipedia

• Francis Lascelles — See also Francis Lascelles (disambiguation) Francis Lascelles [Some sources spell his name Francis Lassels (Mark Noble (1798). The Lives of the English Regicides: And Other Commissioners of the Pretended, J. Stockdale.… …   Wikipedia

• Mads Johansen Lange — Not to be confused with Mads Langer. Painted by unknown Chinese painter on Bali …   Wikipedia

• Crusades — a series of military expeditions between the 11th and 14th centuries, in which armies from the Christian countries of Europe tried to get back the Holy Land (= what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt) from the Muslims. The soldiers who… …   Universalium

• BOAKE, Barcroft Henry Thomas (1866-1892) — poet was born at Sydney on 26 March 1866. His father, Barcroft Capel Boake, was a photographer, his mother, originally Florence Eva Clarke, was the daughter of Henry Clarke an accountant. The son was educated at a school kept by Edward Blackmore …   Dictionary of Australian Biography