False heroics are easy, and unhappily they have borrowed so much of the true, that the truth itself is sometimes put out of countenance by the likeness.
Unhappily for the general effect of the book, the life of Egil is told with less strength and coherence than the fate of his uncle.
With one of our great poets unhappily the case is reversed; the poetic character and destiny of Spenser stand connected with allegory; for here the poet himself prematurely meditated on his allegory before he invented his fiction.
Gray first attuned the Cymry harp to British notes, more poetical than the poems themselves, while others have devoted their pens to translation, unhappily not always master of the language of their version.
Voltaire expounded to his nation the philosophy of Newton; but unhappily he criticized and translated Shakespeare, whose idiomatic phrases and metaphorical style did not admit of the demonstrations of the Newtonian system.
Unhappily the political situation holds him as in a vice.
Unhappily her opinion was not subscribed in certain quarters.
Unhappily steps in confession are like links in a chain, one leads to another.
When ejected from their large holding by Dick o' the Grange, or in other words, were auctioned out, they were unhappily at a loss where to find a place in which they could take a temporary refuge.
Poor Dalton lent himself to this, as far as its aspect of a mere outbreak had attractions for the melancholy love of turbulence, by which he had been of late unhappily animated.
Crillon talk--and very unconcernedly too--of the living death of those who unhappily became the victims of a lettre de cachet.
You are indeed worthy of a better fate than that which has unhappilybefallen you.
Now, in this case, the penalty attached to mercy, in case it should turn outunhappily for those who so nobly determined to stand the risk, cannot be more tragically expressed, than by saying that it did turn out unhappily.
Unhappily she is not," answered John Temple, in a low voice, and with downcast eyes.
At length he reached the point in the narrative where the amiable wanderers fell in with the sealers, on that unknown island to which chance and an adverse fortune hadunhappily led them, in their pilgrimage.
Unhappily the report of Pharsalia had flown before him, and the vane of sentiment had everywhere veered round.
The only, but unhappily too valuable, booty which they had carried off consisted of some thousands of prisoners.
The woods, perviated every where with paths, unhappily afforded us no new traces, and we much feared that the robbers had divided their plunder, and gone off in a different direction.
I once made some songs myself, and even set them to music; and it was in consequence of a serenadeunhappily broken up, and followed by the death of a man, that necessity compelled me to seek my fortune in New Spain.
They had found an adroit monk and a female willing to work through their plans, and the brutal fanaticism of the monk had unhappily spoiled every thing.
She reached her arm out to strike, but unhappilyhit the honey-pitcher above the bed.
His finger hurt him again and he passed it over his head, and then unhappily a hair fell down into the well.
So the coal also laid itself across the water, but unhappily just touched it, on which the coal hissed, was extinguished and died.
Unhappily for me, that turn for duplicity, which I had imbibed in early life, had not forsaken me, notwithstanding the warnings I had received, and the promises of amendment which I had made.
King, his family and partner, together with numbers of others, unhappily perished.
She could have wept over him, for she was one of those unhappily gifted whose soul is like a sensitive plant, and shrinks from the touch of sufferings in others with an exquisite susceptibility.
Unhappily for these predictions, the work saw something like a hundred representations in Paris within the next three or four years!
It must have been plain to the densest understanding that these troops and stores were only being sent to Canada in order that we might be prepared, if unhappily a rupture should take place between England and the United States.
I think I have done something to shake his confidence, but I believe he still relies to a great degree upon assurances he received from England under circumstances wholly different from those which now so unhappily exist.
Not at all; I admire your policy, but unhappilyit is only partially successful.
It is unhappily true," replied Kaunitz, coolly, "The dauphiness makes no mention of such a state of things in her letter.
But, my honored friend, unhappily for us all, you have made this impracticable by your awkward enthusiasm.
Which unhappily were extorted from convents and shrines.
I believe you, unhappily I believe you," said Catharine, weeping.
It is unhappily true that he whom your majesty has raised to the first place in the empire of--" "The first place!
Unhappily for you, you know not what you claim," exclaimed the countess angrily.
Should Frederick unhappilydefeat us, not only Germany, but all Europe will cry out against the greed and injustice of ambitious Austria.
Unhappily he had not the power to enforce obedience to this mandate, and when the Hansa made war upon him, he was obliged to buy peace by further concessions.
Unhappily he married a woman who weakened all that was good in him and strengthened all that was bad.
But unhappily he lacked money and was not effectually aided by the emperor.
This was the very impudence of ingratitude; for we had long known no North, and unhappily had known altogether too much South.
It was undoubtedly too much the practice then, as unhappily it is now, for Christians, on trivial occasions, to appeal to Heaven, and to quote the sanction of Scripture in very questionable matters of worldly policy.
That is truth, said some knights, but they were slain in the hurtling as Sir Launcelot thrang in the thick of the press; and as they were unarmed he smote them and wist not whom that he smote, and so unhappily they were slain.
He had not unhappily the consolation of true religion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unhappily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
