Catch us, indeed, going within a hen's race of thatunlucky cabin!
The day that Connachar sent the invitation to his feast will be unlucky for us if we don't go, O Deirdre.
The sentence for execution is not receiv'd with more concern, than the unlucky appearance of a cast or a card.
The calamitous loss of his mother is shadowed very distinctly in one of his novels, and the unlucky hero (Gilbert Gurney) is represented as having a single prosperous brother, exactly eighteen years older than himself.
IX Shortly after this unlucky visit Mr. Prentice wanted to tell Mrs. Thompson some startling news, but he did not dare.
But you have tested me too severely of late--since thisunlucky affair began.
The most characteristic is perhaps that which asserts that a copy of Chapelain's unlucky Pucelle always lay on the table, a certain number of lines of which was the appointed punishment for offences against the company.
It was considered a very unlucky day in Spain and Italy; it is still deemed an ill-starred day among the Buddhists and Brahmins.
In the Roman Catholic church Friday is a fast day, and is considered anunlucky day because it was the day of Christ's crucifixion.
But, save that unlucky part of the Pope Correspondence, I do not know, in the range of our literature, volumes more delightful.
My friends judge right of my idleness; but, in reality, it has hitherto proceeded from a hurry and confusion, arising from a thousand unlucky unforeseen accidents rather than mere sloth.
With this unlucky heart to dispose of, the poor creature bestowed it on Philip of Königsmarck, than whom a greater scamp does not walk the history of the seventeenth century.
Sure he was the most unluckyof men: he never played a game but he lost it; or engaged in a conspiracy but ’twas certain to end in defeat.
These unlucky letters found their way into print years afterwards, and were sold to the congenial Mr. Curll.
We looked at each other in silence; ’twas not the first stroke by many of our actions in that unlucky time, which, being done, we wished undone.
His transactions on the turf were unlucky as well as discreditable: though I believe he, and his jockey, and his horse Escape, were all innocent in that affair which created so much scandal.
He insulted a man as he served him, made women cry, guests look foolish, bullied unlucky friends, and flung his benefactions into poor men’s faces.
They were simple souls, pathetically grateful for any scrap of sympathy and comfort, and he strove to appear more confident about the chances of clearing this unluckybrother than he really felt.
Viner went thoughtfully homeward, ruminating over the events of the day, and entered his house to find his two guests, the sisters of the unlucky Hyde, in floods of tears, and Miss Penkridge looking unusually grave.
That unluckyfellow Hyde, who is on remand, is to be brought before the magistrate tomorrow morning," answered Viner.
To-day had proved, so far, an unlucky one, prolific of warfare between his clear brain and all too sensitive heart.
He merely participated, though under a novel form, in the unlucky fate of all the men of his race.
Even unlucky devils, such as myself, are not without a certain respect for that which is fitting, for seemliness and etiquette.
You are like an unlucky knight who has had the worst in a duel, but is just about to regain the advantage, when the umpire throws down his staff and puts an end to the combat.
By eight o'clock every spot was occupied, and it was then almost impossible to cross the deck, especially in rough weather, without tripping over some unlucky nose, or flattening it level with the astonished cheeks.
Then how we would exult over any unlucky pedestrians we might chance to encounter!
He would undoubtedly have succeeded in this new enterprise but for one of those unlucky accidents that sometimes befall the wisest, and would certainly never have entered into the calculations of Napoleon himself.
The rivers would probably be unusually low; and it was this circumstance that led us, in spite of our former disappointment, to turn once more a favourable eye upon our unlucky dam.
Equally to be pitied is the unlucky wretch who presumes to wrestle with a two-days' lake--he is sure to be vanquished in the first encounter, and will seldom have an opportunity for a second.
I said, however, nothing to her, or to any of the other ladies, upon this or any subject, for I was so unluckyas to find them not at home when I paid my round of farewell visits.
It was just this that most annoyingly I couldn't make out, because the unlucky disposition of things hid it.
Oswald, on his part, was confirmed by this unusual conduct in the discontent that unlucky fête had engendered; he was excited to struggle against the sentiment whose empire he dreaded.
A few days elapsed: Lucy had begun to meet her husband's eye with confidence, and make her mind known to him, when unlucky incidents disturbed the union commenced under these favorable auspices.
But, at all events, there was this Friday, which proved to be unlucky or not--just as you look at it.
And all sorts of superstitious people call that an unlucky day.
It is strange that I did the same, and a very unlucky bench it proved to me.
That was a lucky hit last night, but a very unlucky one this morning.
The first it is not difficult to adhere to: I make a rule never to lose but a certain sum if I am unlucky when I commence-- say twenty stakes, whatever may be the amount of the stake that you play.
What strokes of my unlucky fancy I have given to his royal highness, will be seen; and it will be seen also, who strikes him worst and most unluckily.
In an unlucky hour That fool intrudes, raw in this great affair, And uninstructed how to stem the tide.
Ebbe uttered a loud cry, he dropped the spade, sprang to one side, and fled in a direction quite opposite to that where he had so recently sought for the unlucky treasure.
What unlucky chance can have brought that wearisome old spectre here this evening, I wonder?
To say truth, the poor plagiary was very unluckyto fall into my hands; that author being no longer in fashion, would have escaped any one of less universal reading than myself.
I suspect the pig, after all, was meant for me; but at the unlucky juncture of time being absent, the present somehow went round to Highgate.
O the corroding, torturing, tormenting thoughts, that disturb the brain of the unlucky wight who must draw upon it for daily sustenance!
After this question it was easy to tell the whole story, from its beginning to its unlucky end.
In a moment all the events of the unlucky morning came back to her, and his gruffly unfavourable opinion.
In her own home, therefore, Lilac heard nothing further on the unlucky subject.
We were not only unluckywith our winds but also with our fishing.
Should it succeed agreeable to my expectations, I hope I shall discover that source of duty which such favors always merit, and should it not succeed, your reward must lay with other unlucky adventurers.
It isunlucky for him being so nervous at the guns; but that is no fault of his, after all, and I am sure in other things he is as cool as possible.
It is rather unlucky for him that fighting is generally accompanied by noise.
Commonly he traveled with it; and thus he even brought it to Boston with him on that unlucky voyage in 1829, when Mr. James Bowdoin was kind enough to take charge of it for him.
James Bowdoin's unlucky laugh had taught him how it seemed to others; and was not inordinate affection, to the manifest injury of the object loved, a sin?
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