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Bonanza

noun

An especially rich vein of precious ore.

A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money). Synonyms: boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall.

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"Bonanza" Quotes from Famous Books

... places, the table knew no modern enhancement of its solidly handsome fittings. Fong, the Chinese cook—he had been with George Alston before he married—ruled the kitchen and the two "second boys." No women servants were employed; women servants had not been a feature of domestic life in Bonanza days. ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... I. "I'm handling rhinestones and Dr. Oleum Sinapi's Electric Headache Battery and the Swiss Warbler's Bird Call, a small lot of the new queer ones and twos, and the Bonanza Budget, consisting of a rolled-gold wedding and engagement ring, six Egyptian lily bulbs, a combination pickle fork and nail-clipper, and fifty engraved visiting cards—no two names alike—all for the sum ...

— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry

... place during the years almost immediately following the Civil War, and leads up to the period of the Bonanza discoveries in Nevada, in the early seventies. With such material as this afforded, it is easy to see that an extremely interesting tale can be constructed by so experienced an author as ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various

... of that?" cried Steve. "He expects that when a mussel starts in to grow a nice healthy pearl he scratches a star on his shell to let the hard-working hunter know when he's struck a bonanza!" ...

— In Camp on the Big Sunflower • Lawrence J. Leslie

... it grew chill and they came closer together over their little brush fire. They spoke in lowered voices, and not always of Helen's father and of his gold. At times they spoke of themselves. To-morrow Helen might be mistress of a bonanza; to-morrow she might be, as she was to-night, a girl but briefly removed from pennilessness. As the stars waxed and began at last to wane and the sky brightened, as the still thin air grew colder at the first promises of another day, they discussed the matter quietly. And ...

— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory

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