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Is life richer with a fortuneless love match, or with all the wealth in the world and a stable union devoid of romantic passion?

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

There was a small life-insurance settled upon Mrs. Lawrence, and the children would be fortuneless.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

What could I, helpless, houseless, fortuneless, be but a weight upon that buoyancy and ambition of eminence which marks superior natures for the superior honours of life.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

He may not have returned either so fortuneless or friendless.

From The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover by Reid, Mayne

The former this brother," M. d'A. says, "had not energy of character to undertake in the desperate manner in which he risked it himself, friendless and fortuneless, to live in exile as he could.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny