Misfortune

Examples

• A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The marriage is no misfortune in itself, she retorted with some little petulance. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You are free from that misfortune, however. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• If so, that is their misfortune. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She had the misfortune to lose her husband when she had been married a few months. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And therefore he will be least likely to lament, and will bear with the greatest equanimity any misfortune of this sort which may befall him. Plato. The Republic.
• Yes, he will feel such a misfortune far less than another. Plato. The Republic.
• It has been the misfortune of my life that I have had few chances. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is your misfortune, my dear fellow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• As to his voice, this misfortune has took it away. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In the strength of his misfortune, and the energy of his distress, he fired for the moment like a proud man. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I was a happy and successful man, Mr. Holmes, and on the eve of being married, when a sudden and dreadful misfortune wrecked all my prospects in life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• If no misfortune happens, she repeated slowly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• 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.

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