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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

... light long enough, sixteen hours a day, deny themselves everything a man can go without, and when the grain is sold the storekeeper or implement dealer takes all they get. When the fellow's sure of their honesty he carried them on, for the sake of the interest, until, if they're unusually lucky, a bonanza crop helps them to wipe off the debt. But do you imagine any slave in the old days ...

— The Girl From Keller's - Sadie's Conquest • Harold Bindloss

... a small colony of Tarahumares living a few miles north of Guanazevi, near San Pedro. Here I excavated some corpses that had been buried several years before on a little plain. The graves were about four feet deep. In Guanazevi a silver "bonanza" was in full blast and ...

— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... night General Jackson came to my camp fire, where he stayed some hours. He said we would move at dawn, asked a few questions about the marching of my men, which seemed to have impressed him, and then remained silent. If silence be golden, he was a "bonanza." He sucked lemons, ate hard-tack, and drank water, and praying and fighting appeared to be his idea of the "whole ...

— Destruction and Reconstruction: - Personal Experiences of the Late War • Richard Taylor

... and walk off with it for a hundred yards?" demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of ...

— The Call of the Wild • Jack London

... let him do that," said the colonel, warming. "All that country above Yankee Fork, for a hundred miles, after you've gone fifty north from Bonanza, is practically virgin forest. Wonderful flora and fauna! It's late for the weeds and things, but if Paul wants game trophies for your country-house, he can load ...

— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote

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