Emptying approximately half the bag - at least twenty steel pieces, a veritable fortune - he sank back.
Although the rain had drove the tourists from the beach itself, the various hotels, shops, arcades, and other indoor areas were making a veritable fortune off the bad weather.
Since the Patrollers didn't have a veritable fortune to spend, they had to settle for a cheap, one floor drive in motel.
As a headliner on the Keith-Orpheum circuit, she was earning $1,500 a week - a veritable fortune at that time.
I figured they would never feel the worse for surrendering such a pittance, but the pennies would net me $1.5 million, then a veritable fortune.
For the initial discoverors, each spade of earth revealed a veritable fortune in gold.
Realizing I had hired a team of demons to fight a war for five gold pieces, he was giving me a veritable fortune!
Tickets were sold on the black market for as high as $30, a veritable fortune in 1905.
Perhaps that is not very much to us, but it represents a veritable fortune for those involved at the coalface, enabling them to undertake specific projects.
And you've saved a veritable fortune!