Adjective : an ill-starred enterprise. ,an ill-starred marriage. From Dictionary.com.
"And I must play the ill-starred Thane of Glamis.". From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
An "ill-starred abortion" WEG christened our party. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891] Reference
It was she who had brought about the ill-starred union. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
It then became the sleeping-room of the ill-starred Louis. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
It was addressed to his steed, after an ill-starred journey to. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
He starts with an ill-starred name -- a name that spells misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
There is little more to relate of this ill-starred marriage, of which. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
The Grand Plateau has taken more lives than its ill-starred neighbor below. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
It would seem that some agency is suppressing accounts of ill-starred ventures. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
And here were the promoters of this ill-starred project fighting amongst themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
And, Malone told himself, he had never had less help in all of his ill-starred life. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
He still held all the cards; he still controlled the fortunes of two ill-starred houses. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
The river they named differently, but it has since borne the title of that ill-starred colony. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
No one can deny the heroism of the men whose lives were sacrificed in this ill-starred expedition. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Up and up went the M.N. 1, leaving the ill-starred Pandora to whatever else fate had in store for her. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference
Such was the intelligence that saluted the ill-starred Mary and her husband on their return to England!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Braddock's ill-starred expedition was followed by the abandonment of the fort by the French, in November. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884] Reference
Thinking the present no time for boding ill-starred events, she hastily turned her mind from the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton] Reference
A ridiculous story spread that Lord Brougham (who had witnessed her ill-starred début in 1843) wanted to marry her. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
But the satisfaction of the clans was dashed by hearing that the ill-starred little laird was fair, like his sisters. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Under such auspices the ill-starred periodicals naturally oscillate between insipid propriety and labored coarseness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Those were the words our family doctor chose when breaking the news to my parents on that ill-starred day in September. From Wordnik.com. [A Body Divided, 2] Reference
Among the rest of this ill-starred council, the principal members in point of rank, if not of influence, were Alexander. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
A few poor people from the little knot of hovels, which was called the village, alone greeted the ill-starred adventurer. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Quixote's ill-favored but famous steed, or as wild and unmanageable as the steed to which the ill-starred Mazeppa was lashed. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
In 1595 Sir Francis and Sir John Hawkins started on that ill-starred expedition to the West Indies, from which neither returned. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Meantime, Longstreet had been detached by General Bragg, for that badly-provided, badly-digested and wholly ill-starred expedition to. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
During the year 1843 the air was full of conspiracies, and various ill-starred attempts at rising against the Italian despots were made. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
They had only just avoided cutting short the life of an ill-starred pedestrian who was in the act of crossing diagonally to a small cafe. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The treasures of art which mock the nakedness of this ill-starred country were to him what they are ever to the mind of the artist, -- they revealed a new world. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Early in life he had embraced the doctrines of the reformers, and he remained to the last the trusted and consistent, though ill-starred, champion of the Protestants. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Braddock's attempt against Fort Du Quesne, upon the march to which he suffered his memorable defeat in the wilderness, being but one of several ill-starred English undertakings. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
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