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Example sentences for "misfortunate"

Lexicographically close words:
misery; mises; misfire; misfit; misfits; misfortune; misfortunes; misgave; misgives; misgiving
  1. Alick Bowsie married to a drucken randie, that wore the breeks, and did not allow the misfortunate creature the life of a dog.

  2. The poor misfortunate fellow has his spoine injured, and he can't live forty- eight hours, if as long as that, sure!

  3. Tis the wife of the watchman, Misfortunate Colin," replied Alister McAlister, who this morning had somehow accomplished the gravity of a judge on circuit.

  4. As I thocht," she said, "it is just Misfortunate Colin.

  5. Misfortunate Colin lay as he had fallen, with the keys of the dungeon tucked under his belt.

  6. Also How He Freed a Misfortunate Castle and Town From the Giants Who Held Them, and How He Released the Lord Thereof From a Dungeon.

  7. He could proceed no farther, for his heart swelled, and his utterance was for a while stifled, he being no other than the misfortunate Bailie of Crail, whose light wife had sunk into the depravity of the Archbishop's lemane.

  8. At their marriage, it was agreed that they should take with them into the west Agnes Kilspinnie, one of the misfortunate bailie's daughters.

  9. In sooth to say, he was a young man of a disorderly nature, and about seven months after he left the town twa misfortunate creatures gave him the wyte of their bairns.

  10. Without we came on the misfortunate landlord still in the deeps of gloom, but upon Adam's assurance that all damages should be made good, he brought us up a pair of stairs to a fair chamber and there served us a most excellent meal.

  11. So far as I remember, Bet, I writ you these words: 'Meet me at midnight in your garden with fifty guineas for your loving and misfortunate fugitive, Charles.

  12. There never was sich a misfortunate nose on anybody's face--a-squoking out dat way in onseasonable hours!

  13. And dat is who kilt poor misfortunate Miss Ailsie, poor gal!

  14. The admission caused a number of reflections to occur in my mind, and the chief of these was that I was a misfortunate wretch.

  15. Still I could not help but be thinking how misfortunate it was that I had kicked a great swordsman out of this inn at Bristol when he might have been a harmless shoemaker if I had only decent luck.

  16. Don't make a greater fool o' yourself, you misfortunate little nat'ral you, than the Lord himself made you.

  17. Oh, thin, but I'm the misfortunate blackguard all out!

  18. Why the misfortunate crathurs a daughter of her father's, ould Mick Duignan, of Tavenimore.

  19. A crowing hen and a cackling ruseter are very misfortunate poultry in a family.

  20. As once before, I am your poor misfortunate pensioner; but this time you are not less willing to give than I am to receive.

  21. Yet it made me sick in my soul's soul; and at times I must needs fall behind to rave it out in solitude, cursing the day that I was born, and that other more misfortunate day when I had reared the barrier impassable between these two.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misfortunate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.