Any one who happened to be nursing a Hard-Luck Story would hunt up sympathetic Jasper and give him the Grip and then weep on his Shoulder.
That is, he refers all Hard-Luck Tales to a Society which was never known to give up.
We've had luck for the six years Pierre has been with us.
His luck had been too strong that night, and now only two men faced him, and both of them lost persistently.
You've been croaking for six years, Morgan, about the bad luck that would come to Jim from saving me out of the snow.
And the old man groaned: "But it's his luck that's ruined me.
No, the bad luck comes on the people who are with me, but never on me.
She clung to a last thread of hope: "If you met him and killed him with the luck of the cross it would bring equal bad luck on some one you love--on the girl, Pierre!
The bad luck has come to poor old Jim at last, because he saved me out of the snow.
Some one cursed at his ill-luck as Pierre entered, and a dozen hands reached for six-guns.
Don't damn me, Pierre le Rouge, but damn the luck you've brought to Jim Boone.
Say, kid, why don't you try yourluck with Mac Hurley?
It's his damned luck which has broken up the finest fellowship that ever mocked at law on the ranges.
But Pierre answered: "Wherever I've gone there's been luckfor me and hell for every one around me.
Black Gandil swears that I'm bringing bad luck to the boys at last.
But as luck would have it they had not gone more than two hundred yards when a bullet whizzed within two feet of Jerry's head, followed by a shower of missiles that were directed entirely too close to them for comfort.
My second situation, however, amply compensated me for my want of luck in the first.
She contrived to provide, hardly enough, for her simple wants by doing rough work for the tailors, and always managed to keep a decent home for her son to return to whenever his ill luck drove him out helpless into the world.
She says she is born to misfortune, and that, as long back as she can remember, she has never had the least morsel of luck to be thankful for.
He ventured boldly in his investments; luck went against him; and rather less than two years ago he found himself a poor man again.
Oh, to think that good luck should have come to her door, and she should have been so foolish as to turn it away!
He went to California to seek his fortune, and he had some good luck and some bad.
As ill-luck would have it, I was in the minority in the choice of a place of entertainment.
As good luck had it I had not left the Pyramid and so heard you cry for help, otherwise you might be in the Queen's Hall at this minute.
The situation was not novel, and he dealt with it with his customary good luck and success.
Whatever you do you always say it is luck, as if luck could do everything.
Well, at any rate, doctor, Glover told me half an hour ago of a piece of luck in which none of us here can share.
Three days; and you are in luck to find us here, for I hear that we are off again to-morrow morning.
However, it may be that the luck will stick to you for a bit yet, for, by my faith, I shall before long have forgotten how to take off a limb or to tie up an artery for want of practice.
It is his luck and not the ship's; whatever he has put his hand to has turned out well.
I was faster and more weatherly than she was, and having had the luck to smash the jaws of her gaff after a running fight of seven or eight miles, was able to get back to the prize and recapture her before the pirate came up.
You are very well, Turnbull, and I have no sort of complaint to make of you, but I am afraid that the luck will go with Glover.
I don't say that he has not done his work as well as it could be done, but there is no doubt that luck is everything.
We have now been cruising for four or five months, but not until we sighted the frigate and her prizes have we had the luck to fall in with an enemy.
Well, it will be a rare piece of luck if they are there.
It was clear that they had had the good luck to catch all the pirates at once.
It will be great luck if one or two of them should put in here while I am away.
There was all kind of entertainment and all sort of diversion at it, and no less than three girls got husbands there--more luck to them.
But if your honour would only listen to reason: I'll just take in the poor baste, and if your honour don't pardon me this one time may I never see another day's luck or grace.
Bad luckto yourself, with your hooked nose, and to all your breed, you blackguard.
Whatever your luck has been, you never had any grace to lose: but I don't intend discussing the matter with you.
Dick, although he knew well enough what she was crying for, determined to keep the cohuleen driuth, let her cry never so much, to see what luck would come out of it.
It was certainly a tremendous piece of luck that he had discovered it.
But no such luck awaited him, and his surprise was all the more marked when just as he was leaving the theater after the play was finished he felt a light touch on his arm and looked down to see the laughing face of Kitty Hampton.
You didn't seem to be having very good luckat it," grinned Whalen.
Question--what day in the week shall we have the luckto come up with him?
But Dick received a postal card, on the back of which was printed: "If you ever interfere with me again, I promise you that your luck is at an end!
There is no telling who may have the luck to find a clue that will soon lead to the end of the search.
By what confounded ill-luck they had got into his possession I could not imagine; but there they were.
Comrades, here's luck to that 'ere shot that showed us the way in;" and he took another diligent pull at the hole.
Maybe I can give luck a turn and get more push out of it.
Without exception every guest was interested in the case, and as the motorists chugged off many were the wishes of good luck that were wafted after them.
His friends could not explain those desires for abandoning his studies and returning: he had no sweethearts, was not a gambler, hardly knew anything about hunkían and rarely tried his luck at the more familiar revesino.
The luckof that unfortunate, who had asked for help and received his dismissal, pained the high official and he tried to do something for him.
If you only knew whence came that luck of Señor Pelaez's!
Just my luck that she's not of my town," he added, after turning his head several times to follow her with his looks.
For the first time in their lives they went hungry to work, and the spectacle of these two brave fellows fighting on an empty stomach against continued ill-luck must have moved the fickle goddess to pity and repentance.
According to Lady Burton, it is believed to bring ill-luck to its possessor.
But this was only a momentary gleam of sunshine, for their former ill-luck pursued them again, and pursued them even more relentlessly than before.
I trust he will have better luck than McDowell had," was my reply.
You are now changing to McClellan, simply because McDowell has had bad luck and McClellan good luck.
The four-leaved shamrock brings goodluck to its wearer, mavourneen; may it bring it to you!
It would be hard luckto be within two miles of him for a whole term, without exchanging a single word.
One doesn't always have theluck of picking up a mermaid," she declared.
With her heart in her mouth she glanced rapidly round at the wicket, expecting to see her bails fly; but luck was on her side, for the break had been a little too great, and the ball just cleared the off stump.
Run along, little Dorothy, and may good luck go with you!
It isn't easy to guess those orn'ments, and only luck saved me from being one myself.
I had cherished a faint hope that your luck might be mine, and now the only consolation I have is that the best man always wins.
Luck might be on my side, especially if my new friend the detective inspector's assistance proved to be available.
Of course I had to be prepared with some excuse, and here luck favoured me.
As a matter of fact, it had been more by luck than by design that she had accomplished the passage.
Anyhow we got the rest of them," said the man who had recognized Rob, "better luck next time.
That's the way luck goes,' he cried, catching at his own cloth that threatened to pull loose.
I think it was just luckthat it was Whitey he got rather than Snake.
They're bad luck on a ship," interrupted the mate.
By some miracle of good luck the package was still right side up when she arrived at the hospital, and she breathed an audible sigh of relief when it was at last safely out of her hands.
Katherine doubled her speed and fled like a deer, slipping wildly over the icy sidewalk and expecting every minute to fall down, but by some miracle of good luck managing to retain her balance.
Now, after that what could I do but go ahead and make her happy while I stayed, and trust to luck to straighten the snarl out afterwards?
His seclusion was overflowing now in an excess of confidence, and I had the good luck to be the recipient.
I did a very great deal of complicated thinking over these problems--for I am no mathematician--and in the end I am certain it was much more my good luck than my reasoning that enabled me to hit the earth.
