Juliana and Isabel explained how they had saved their modest fortune.

Most artists never "succeed" in the sense of attaining fame and modest fortune.

I prefer my own modest fortune and comparative safety from attack.

His mother inherits the modest fortune of her husband and goes away for a while.

There were several men present whose modest fortunes could be wiped out by the scheme.

His father had distinguished himself at the bar before him, and had amassed a modest fortune.

Though childless the couple managed to amass quite a modest fortune through the years.

He had only a mother, and she lived on the modest fortune which her husband had left her.

But he wasn't fool enough to think his modest fortune had impressed this man.

But that means dancers do it for love, not fame or fortune, though some are famous, and a very few earn modest fortunes.