The unfortunates are those who, with the spirochetes in their artery walls, heart muscle, brain, and spinal cord, develop the destructive arterial and nervous changes which lead to the crippling of life at its root and premature death.
These poor unfortunates were burned at the stake, and Albarca, a contemporary Church historian, in describing the scene, says that these awful fires were "illuminations most grateful to the Catholic piety of Fernando and Isabella.
Prisoners are bound to be taken from all armies, and theunfortunates who have to undergo years of captivity should have the sympathy of all thinking persons.
Of course when I left most of these unfortunates were back in the cells, beginning their five months' stretch of solitary confinement.
He also trusts they will show their good feeling by purchasing a copy, and that all the unfortunates will speedily be returned to Who's Who.
TWIST, Oliver, one of those unfortunates whose history had to be divulged for the financial gain of a great writer and many theatrical mangers.
Twenty unfortunates were drowned; and our passengers, accustomed to the river, spoke of it with perfect indifference, as a very common affair.
In "Little Dorrit," Charles Dickens has told something of thoseunfortunates who were thrown into prison for debt.
These unfortunates had not been allowed to leave Constantinople when they wished to, about a week before war was declared, and they were older prisoners than any of us.
From behind the bars came the voices of prisoners and the clank of chains, and through them we could see a mass of unfortunates either undergoing sentences or awaiting them; probably the latter; it is mostly waiting in Turkey.
McAllister was absent most of the time in the interests of the unfortunates under his charge.
The poor fellow who had been first seized died that night, and afterward many unfortunates were buried beneath the snow-laden pines.
How it was possible for the absence of the men from roll call to remain unnoticed I cannot understand; but I heard afterwards that the colonel of the regiment to which these unfortunates belonged got into serious trouble over it.
I, "that does not look very much as though the first lieutenant's remonstrance had produced any beneficial effect; there's trouble in store for some of those unfortunates on the yards if they are not exceptionally lively.
No merely mortal pen could depict it; nor can anyone, save those unfortunates who have passed through such an ordeal, imagine it.
There were pitiful scenes, and the boys made up their minds that they would come back and lend what aid they could to the unfortunatesas soon as they had caught and made fast their fine boat.
It was not these poor unfortunates I came to San Antonio to study, but the itinerant workers who are lured from their dull towns to new and undeveloped centers of activity, believing work and high wages await them.
To my question, "Are not these unfortunates subjects of the British Crown, and being so are there no appropriations made for their care by the English government?
The jailer, George McLaughlin, was a man of cast-iron decision and gruffness, yet under the most trying circumstances his actions toward these troublesome unfortunates were exceedingly kind.
I saw the "drunk tanks" into which unfortunates were crowded and where, I was told, they were often found dead from suffocation.
On the eve of my first night in the city I sat with a number of unfortunates on the projection of the foundation of the Salvation Army Hotel.
The prospect confronting these unfortunates was disheartening in the extreme.
He was a stout-hearted fellow and did his best to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunates around him, many of whom lay groaning in agony on the floor, amid pools of blood.
In Navarre these unfortunates go by the name of Gaffos and Ganets; and in various valleys of the Pyrenees they are called Gezits or Gezitains.
While these unfortunates were visited with several heads, instances have been known of heads that had attained a most enormous volume.
The governments agree to inform the authorities of the country of origin of the discovery of such unfortunates and to retain, pending advices, such victims in institutions of public or private charity.
They all sprung into the shallop; but as it was very much overloaded, seventeen unfortunates preferred remaining on board, rather than expose themselves as well as their companions to certain death.
If the unfortunates who were assailed with these primary symptoms had not strength to withstand them, their death was certain.
At the centre the pressure was such, that some unfortunates were suffocated by the weight of their comrades, who fell upon them at every instant.
The sixty unfortunateswho had escaped from the first massacre, were soon reduced to fifty, then to forty, and at last to twenty-eight.
We laid these unfortunates upon the dead bodies, supporting their backs with a barrel.
We discussed the storm, the prospect of its clearing, the number of unfortunates in the adjacent Bois who were soaked to the skin, especially the poor little bicycle-girls in their cotton bloomers, now collapsed and bedraggled.
Now these unfortunatesare out in the cold; their own people can't help them, and the white man won't.
From all, the angry element obliged those unfortunates to retire.
Upon the unfortunates within the place, the effects of captivity were variously exhibited.
Hunger and thirst would drive the unfortunates thither, and she believed she could recognize them at sight; if not, they might recognize her.
The three were not far apart; far enough, however, to make it possible for the unfortunates to miss the Nazarene if they failed the one he chose to come by.
There was no hero larger in the eyes of these unfortunates than the simple priest who walked among them with his unpretentious piety.
Kate's "bobs" were the unfortunatesshe collected around her.
There was a panic throughout this vicinity a few days ago, over the landing of a flatboat, and the coming ashore of the unfortunates who were on it.
He was one of those unfortunateswho can never be happy on a level--even with the highest--and who must look down in order to be at all content with life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unfortunates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
