The result was fortunate.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

He was fortunate, and proud.

There are, after all, fortunate souls who hear everything, but only know how to listen to what is good for them, and Stowey was, as things go, a fortunate man.

He was, however, fortunate in his contact with Prof. J. G. L. Manthey ( 1769-1842 ), teacher of chemistry, who, in addition to his academic chair, was also proprietor of the `` Lion Pharmacy '' in Copenhagen where Oersted assisted him.

This was fortunate, as the Vail plant burned in 1905.

Tommy Momoyama was one of these fortunate occasions.

Bates was more fortunate, as the song's popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929.

Amasis reacted by cultivating closer ties with the Greek states to counter the future Persian invasion into Egypt but was fortunate to have died in 526 B. C. E.

This might have been fortunate timing for Abd al-Rahman, since he was still getting a solid foothold in al-Andalus.

" That was a fortunate coincidence, of course, that the name should pack a backwoods connotation.

Proving more fortunate was his choice to break with the French and seek friendly ties with Libyan president Qaddafi, taking away the rebels ' principal source of supplies.

" Euripides however was more fortunate than the other tragedians in the survival of a second edition of his work, compiled in alphabetical order as if from a set of his collect works, but without scholia attached.

Elizabeth was fortunate that many bishoprics were vacant at the time, including the Archbishopric of Canterbury.

" After listing the disasters of those 28 years, Bury concludes that Honorius " himself did nothing of note against the enemies who infested his realm, but personally he was extraordinarily fortunate in occupying the throne till he died a natural death and witnessing the destruction of the multitude of tyrants who rose up against him.

Bazille was generous with his wealth, and helped support his less fortunate associates by giving them space in his studio and materials to use.

Richard's younger brother John, who succeeded him, was not so fortunate ; he suffered the loss of Normandy and numerous other French territories following the disastrous Battle of Bouvines.

King Philip I, named by his Kievan mother with a typically Eastern European name, was no more fortunate than his predecessor although the kingdom did enjoy a modest recovery during his extraordinarily long reign ( 1060 – 1108 ).

Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.

Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

It was all Greg had time to see.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

The Indian was again raising his bottle, but to my astonished relief -- probably only a fraction of Johnson's -- the bottle this time went to the Indian's lips.

There was no time to pick out a penny ; ;

This time there was no sound of brakes but the shrieking of women.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.