Unhappily

Examples

• Their father was no object of love to them; he had never seemed the friend of their pleasures, and his absence was unhappily most welcome. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My time is engrossed, unhappily, with other concerns. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Unhappily, that expectation was now extinct within her for ever. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Miss Halcombe unhappily exposed herself to be wetted through by a heavy rain. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Do my father and mother live unhappily together? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But Napoleon, unhappily for himself, had got his fingers in a trap on the other side of the Atlantic, and was in no position to intervene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then unhappily the Hussites fell into internal dissensions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Unhappily their tradition had not the fixity of a written record. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Unhappily there is more, much more, which the unrelenting pecuniary pressure of Mr. Blake's cheque obliges me to tell. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I at once came to Norfolk with my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, but, unhappily, only in time to find that the worst had already occurred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And that, unhappily, sounded the keynote of the Conference, whose sole business should have been with the future of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I don't deny that there are peculiar complications in this case; but the case itself is, most unhappily, common--common. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For my own part, I shrink from the idea of alarming the poor creature a second time, as I have most unhappily alarmed her already. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yes, unhappily. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Unhappily a social quality, nay, almost a tourist quality, was introduced into the world settlement by these ladies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Unhappily, declining fast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And yet it doesn't end unhappily--somehow or other the nuptial establishment jogs on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They are now, unhappily, extinct. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My daughter Dora having, unhappily, no mother, Miss Murdstone is obliging enough to become her companion and protector. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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