This was a very disturbing discovery, but it suggested at the same time what a lucky escape they had had.
Presently absolute silence reigned; and Errington reckoned that they were lucky in having approached so late in the evening, when the wild fowl had settled themselves; otherwise they might have been betrayed by the birds' flight.
And every one had a little rabbit's foot, mounted like a charm, for a souvenir; and also a bright lucky penny of that very year.
Your mother and I will plan it all, and you can just be the lucky little hostess.
Now, I propose to consider thirteen a lucky number, and before your birthday is over, you'll agree with me, I know.
So Marjorie sprang up, and made haste with her bathing and dressing, so that in less than half an hour she was dancing downstairs to begin her Lucky Birthday.
I'm lucky to have you around for this particular birthday, I think.
By the way, Mehitabel, it's lucky you came home from your little jaunt in time for your birthday.
Next year I suppose they'll go to America, lucky kids!
These old houses are dark, and inconveniently built but we are lucky to get anything so central.
Strange some lucky fellow has not won her before now," proceeded the other, glancing away to hide the blush that followed his diplomacy.
Lucky I be made o' strong stuff, else I might have thought 'e a ghost an' no less.
You scent your own luck ahead, and wish me to be lucky too.
And perhaps he'll be one of the lucky ones, like I was.
Each several thing was duly brought As rule of old observance taught, And lucky signs on each impressed Stamped it the fairest and the best.
There saw they Bhadra, white as snow, With lucky marks that fortune show, Bearing the earth upon his head.
No day so lucky may compare, For marriage—so the wise declare— With the last day of Phálguni Ruled by the genial deity.
Then to Prince Lakshmaṇ thus he cried: “Take Urmilá thine offered bride, And clasp her hand within thine own Ere yet the lucky hour be flown.
He shone with many a lucky sign, And many an ornament divine; A towering mountain in his height, A tiger in his gait and might.
And they who read the stars, and well Each lucky sign and hour could tell, Raised carefully the tented shade Wherein high-minded Bharat stayed.
She knew that Pushya’s lucky hour Would raise her son to royal power, So fixed with bated breath each thought On God supreme, by all men sought.
The dawn is come, thelucky day; Go bid the monarch haste away, That now Prince Ráma may obtain The empire, and begin his reign.
It's better to be born lucky than rich," said saucy Bywater.
The next day the wind continued light, but the 'Irex' being lucky with the wind, managed to save the tide round all the headlands, and reached Cowes at 3 hrs.
Mine must be a lucky star, for day before yesterday I received a box of mayflowers from Brattleboro, and yesterday morning your pear trees, and at evening a hummingbird's nest from Worcester.
You'll be lucky to shake him down for a few thousand.
Last season a girl was lucky to get fifty dollars as a banquet favor; but the cost of living rises nightly.
It fills me with a crunkling joy A straw-stack to behold, For then I pad this lucky boy With strands of yellow gold.
You arelucky to have anyone to help you," declared Dorothy.
It's lucky my stitches are so fine and strong, for otherwise such harsh treatment might rip me up the back.
Thirteen's mylucky number, too," remarked the Scarecrow.
Ah, that is indeed a lucky number," replied the Tin Woodman.
Whenever he found his papers neither torn nor topsy-turvy and his pens not gaping cross-nibbed, he considered himself a lucky man!
B-- received three wounds; but, by a lucky prod, eventually killed his man.
When told of his folly and the probability of his having been cheated, he exclaimed, "Then I consider myself lucky in not having lost twice that sum!
I observed that I had not been lucky enough to see Lord Byron in any of my rambles, to which he replied, "Byron is living at his villa, surrounded by his court of sycophants; but I shall shortly see him at Leghorn.
But he was lucky to recover himself in time before the Turks could divine what had occurred.
We are the lucky ones, because you have come back to us," Adrienne agreed impressively.
It was fortunate that the big bull was behind the herd when the stampede began, and it was lucky that there was plenty of room for the animals, or he surely would have been trampled to death.
As she sets over ag'inst this lucky invalid her colour is high an' her eyes like two stars.
The general belief that immense fortunes were made by the lucky holders of Bell stock, is an exaggeration that has been kept alive by the promoters of wildcat companies.
There was a happy-go-lucky jumble of trains and wagons, all held back by the slowest team; and this continued on some railways until as late as 1857.
But be so good as to inform the Court if you know a hostelry named The Lucky Digger.
I don't sell that--it's my lucky bit; the first I found.
At the very time that Rachel was walking out of the garden of roses, Scarlett was turning into The Lucky Digger.
That blame pretty girl at The Lucky Digger kept me, an' wouldn't let me go, though I told her I had a most important engagement.
I think I'll give up batching here, and live at The Lucky Digger and have a spree.
Scarlett, however, heedless of the anathemas of the stricken clerk, stepped from the door of The Lucky Digger, picked up the fallen parasol, and handed it politely to Rachel.
And, Carny, if that girl at The Lucky Digger tries to pump you as to what your lay is, tell 'er you've come to buy a little property and settle down.
So lucky on the diggings, so unlucky in town, Bill the Prospector took the box with a slightly trembling hand and rattled the dice.
It's a bit of a ring I was give to mend," he replied, "up at The Lucky Digger.
Tresco stood on his doorstep, and with half-shut eyes watched the prospector to the door of The Lucky Digger.
The men from The Lucky Digger had paused before the brilliantly lighted building.
Tresco and his friend, Boscoe, entered the portals of The Lucky Digger.
We got across safely, and were lucky enough to land just where a little stream of fresh water came down from the hill that rose in the middle of the island.
Charlie, it's luckyyou had the foresight to tumble in above us.
Only as I was telling Charlie, it's lucky he had the discretion to go in above stream instead of down, or the devil himself would hardly have managed to get him out.
He was a clean-run, strong, healthy man, whom more than one girl of his acquaintance would think herself surpassing lucky to capture.
He was a happy-go-lucky person and he could not give his child a large dowry.
Poor Sparrow had not been very lucky for the last few years.
Unless we are very lucky we shall sometimes lose ourselves in a sudden and dense fog of ignorance.
Kimberley was particularly lucky in being the centre of the wealthy and alert De Beers Company, which had laid in sufficient ammunition and supplies to prevent the town from being helpless in the presence of the enemy.
Decidedly July 11th was not a lucky day for the British arms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lucky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
