Her father left her a colossal fortune.
Brun also ran his own private business and over the years built a colossal fortune.
But making a colossal fortune was not enough for him.
The film rights sold immediately to Orson Welles for $612,004, a colossal fortune in those days, and not exactly chump change in our own time.
A man who with shrewd business acumen and perfect honesty had built up a fortune so colossal that really philanthropy had been the only solution to the disposal of it.
If this sinister individual"-he was pointing at Reb- "had wanted to stay and work with me, we could have made a colossal fortune together.
The Ferme générale, with its colossal fortune, appeared to encapsulate the perversion of the political and social system.
He was invested with various offices of state, and possessed the most colossal fortune that had ever been amassed by a private Frenchman.
It leaves us nothing to do but mourn our colossal bad fortune.
"He belonged to the circle of the highest nobility and possessed a colossal fortune; in disposition too he was a genuine aristocrat--a man emphatically proud."