Misfortunes

Examples

• An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She was naturally sensible, and misfortunes had made her serious. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I asked him what he thought Ham's state of mind was, in reference to the cause of their misfortunes? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Then he gave me such a detail of misfortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As to deploring her misfortunes, she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was a part of her father's misfortunes that they did. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• What a series of misfortunes and disasters! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• These are heavy misfortunes, replied Elizabeth. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The Hudson's Bay company, before their misfortunes in the late war, had been much more fortunate than the Royal African company. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Evadne now related the tale of her misfortunes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Here he himself knows his misfortunes; but as those, with whom he lives. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What else was to be expected when he was enjoying our past misfortunes--gloating over them at the moment! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I do not know that the relation of my misfortunes will be useful to you, yet, if you are inclined, listen to my tale. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The misfortunes of my youth are very hard upon me, he said, turning his face to the wall, very hard upon me in my later time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Bother your misfortunes, cried Mrs. Bagnet, if they don't make you more reasonable than that comes to. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I had had sickness and misfortunes, and was so poor,' said the old man, 'as hopelessly to owe the father, principal and interest. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is impossible to say what misfortunes may not have happened to the miserable creature. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A tragic poet, that would represent his heroes as very ingenious and witty in their misfortunes, would never touch the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Her father had met with fresh misfortunes which had entirely ruined him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Don't be severe upon me in my misfortunes, Mrs. Bagnet, said the trooper lightly. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But in Naples I think they speculate on misfortunes of that kind. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The principal pleasure of your life is to remind your family of their misfortunes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• These misfortunes, however, seem to have arisen rather from accident than from any thing in the nature of those events themselves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As he was thus bewailing his misfortunes, he stumbled over a charred timber and fell flat on the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Oppressed by the recollection of my various misfortunes, I now took a double dose, and soon slept profoundly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Your favourite schoolfellow, Louis Manoir, has suffered several misfortunes since the departure of Clerval from Geneva. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Yesterday the stranger said to me, You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• To add to his misfortunes his wife died in February, 1825. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To begin by shutting ourselves up and telling you of Tamsin's misfortunes would have been a poor sort of welcome. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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