But we are told "he was given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
I think I never took such a bad walk as this before, since the hour I was born, in point of unluckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
A sorry dowry, this, for an inheritor of a palace at once so noble and admirable in spite of its unluckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
He was teased with being unduly superstitious and attaching too much significance to the supposed unluckiness of the number thirteen. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Top With the Third Australian Division] Reference
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ la méfiance (f) = distrust; le manque (m) de chance = unluckiness; une vie (f) de chien = dog's life. From Wordnik.com. [subir - French Word-A-Day] Reference
The idea of the unluckiness of a woman's being the "first-foot" is extraordinarily widespread; the present writer has met with it in an ordinary London restaurant, where great stress was laid upon a man's opening the place on New Year's morning before the waitresses arrived. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
Chinese bloggers buzzed about the unluckiness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
Three guys down is unlucky, but ya, within normal wear and tear unluckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Apart, with William Story, he and I talked of the unluckiness of Friday, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
The unluckiness of his recal, I think, appears to increase in its ill effect; and people don't seem to fancy Pigott. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Of all the unluckiness that ever I met, this is the worst! for, do you know, I bought it but the day before I left Paris!. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference
And for those that did not waste such an opportune time of un-unluckiness ... many thanks! and loves! and affections!. From Wordnik.com. [pojken Diary Entry] Reference
He has reflected very little on a life whose unluckiness in its first decades might have broken a weaker or a more susceptible man. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Review of Books] Reference
Davies, Archdeacon, vicar of Saperton, on Shakespeare's 'unluckiness' in poaching, 27 on 'Justice Clodpate' (Justice Shallow), 29 362. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
Sometimes I fancy that my abominable handwriting had as much to do with alienating a certain fair inconstant as the news of my reputed unluckiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day] Reference
Mrs. Watson had each promised to set a hen on thirteen eggs -- which number is supposed to lose its unluckiness when applied to eggs -- to give Thursa a start in poultry. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
The others said that it would be a good idea if it were raining, we discussed this again and concluded that this would be a good idea because rain is a sign of unluckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Mrs. Motherwell, Mrs. Slater, and Mrs. Watson had each promised to set a hen on thirteen eggs – which number is supposed to lose its unluckiness when applied to eggs – to give Thursa a start in poultry. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
And yet this estimable family had spent its life waging war on superstition; evidently they imagined that all the superstition and error of humanity was limited to the three candles, the thirteenth of the month, and to the unluckiness of Monday!. From Wordnik.com. [The Chorus Girl and Other Stories] Reference
It has been already, I believe, mentioned that, among the superstitions in which he chose to indulge, the supposed unluckiness of Friday, as a day for the commencement of any work, was one by which he, almost always, allowed himself to be influenced. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
The independent testimony of Archdeacon Davies, who was vicar of Saperton, Gloucestershire, late in the seventeenth century, is to the effect that Shakespeare 'was much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from Sir Thomas Lucy, who had him oft whipt, and sometimes imprisoned, and at last made him fly his native county to his great advancement.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
Besides the causes already enumerated as leading naturally to such a result, from the peculiarities by which, in most instances, these great labourers in the field of thought are characterised, there is also much, no doubt, to be attributed to an unluckiness in the choice of helpmates, -- dictated, as that choice frequently must be, by an imagination accustomed to deceive itself. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
We don’t hire the ones with low numbers because we don’t want them bringing their unluckiness. From Wordnik.com. [Best of PubCon 2009 | Managing Greatness] Reference
La méfiance (f) = distrust; le manque (m) de chance = unluckiness; une vie (f) de chien = dog's life. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
Chinese bloggers buzzed about the unluckiness of it all. ". From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
"I had certainly no right to say any thing about the unluckiness of your choice, though I rejoice now that I did, as it has drawn from you a tribute which, however unaccountable and mysterious it renders the whole affair, is highly honourable to both parties. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
Friday, supposed unluckiness of. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
Degreess of unluckiness. From Wordnik.com. [miss-k2 Diary Entry] Reference
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