marry a fortune

I am in commerce, but now I intend to stay here and marry a fortune.

I think I have married a fortune, and a very good fortune too,' says he.

Roger's supposed to draw American heiresses like flies, and marry a fortune to refill the family coffers.

Instead of affected characters and improbable incidents, with a pretty heroine marrying a fortune, "Mary" depicted the reality of privation.

Mr. Frank soon discovered that marrying a fortune was not a foolproof tactic, as he became enmeshed in repeated familial disputes.

Maude has determined that Kate should marry a fortune, and she bribes her niece into complicity with carefully timed gifts of jewelry.

The business seems to pay them remarkably well... there is some truth in the old saying, so well known in St. Ishmael's parish, that 'he who marries a Llansaint woman marries a fortune'.

I have been talking to your father, _dear_ - now please turn to me and attend - and although we are happy that you are marrying a fortune, we feel you are rather like a little baa-lamb being led to the slaughter.