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1. The crowd roared its approval, and moved to eject the luckless Flitter
2. It was a summing up of the hurt and destruction Jack had reaped on his luckless colleague
3. Then he realized that it was a gigantic serpent which had writhed its glistening length up the side of the bow and gripped the luckless warrior in its jaws
4. One luckless cock-bird flew up Joe Billie‘s pants leg, while another, a hen, ended up trapped in his loose fitting warrior coat
5. Aureliano Segun-do was the unconquered eater until the luckless Satur-day when Camila Sagastume appeared, a totemic female known all through the land by the good name of “The Elephant
6. Her long and neglected hair, the splotches that were beginning to appear on her face, the swelling of her legs, the deformation of her former lovemaking weasel’s body had changed Amaranta Úrsula from the youthful creature she had been when she arrived at the house with the cage of luckless canaries and her captive husband, but it did not change the vivacity of her spirit
7. The storm of anti-aircraft fire was as furious as ever as the luckless AKAGI capsized, its gunners still at their posts
8. � The luckless Germans who escaped the guardsmen then fell in the gun sights of Nancy�s four tanks and four IFVs, who had just completed the destruction of the fleet of trucks used to bring in the Germans
9. 000 luckless witches to the stake of fire
10. And Mikolka swung the shaft a second time and it fell a second time on the spine of the luckless mare
11. She instantly placed under the luckless man's head a pillow, which no one had thought of and began undressing and examining him
12. "Luckless that I am!" said Don Quixote, hearing the sad news his squire gave him; "I had rather they despoiled me of an arm, so it were not the sword-arm; for I tell thee, Sancho, a mouth without teeth is like a mill without a millstone, and a tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond; but we who profess the austere order of chivalry are liable to all this
13. In reading the reports, the first reflection which occurs to one is that, if that luckless ship had been a couple of hundred feet shorter, she would have probably gone clear of the danger
14. thousand gallant ships, while the bones of the luckless mariners shone white in
15. He sent a rapid glance through the half-open door of the chamber, and ascertaining that what I stated was apparently true, delivered the house of his luckless presence
16. When his ship struck, the captain abandoned his post; and the crew, instead of trying to save her, rushed into riot and confusion, leaving no hope for their luckless vessel
17. It spun around, hurling its axe, which whirred over the assassin's head and buried itself in a luckless thief behind him
18. A drenching of that violence, he tells me, sans blague, has sent more than one luckless fellow in good earnest posthaste to another world
19. Mercy on the luckless! Poor Sceptre! he said with a light sigh
20. Anybody can see that the luckless wretch was doomed from the moment he caught hold of the anchor
21. was hard to see her favorite child quieting in Rhett’s arms when she had screamed so The negroes fled, the luckless Lou wailing into her apron
22. But nothing happened; there seemed to be no angels or fairies interested in this luckless captive
23. Denisov never spoke of Rostov’s family, but by the tender friendship his commander showed him, Rostov felt that the elder hussar’s luckless love for Natasha played a part in strengthening their friendship
24. He sent a rapid glance through the half-open door of the chamber, and, ascertaining that what I stated was apparently true, delivered the house of his luckless presence
25. In reality, the only thing that interested him on the drive was the pink marble Parthenon half hidden among leafy banana and mango trees, a luckless replica of the idyllic mansions on Louisiana cotton plantations
26. Childe Harold not unfrequently perches himself upon the mast-head of some luckless disappointed whale-ship, and in moody phrase ejaculates:—
27. Next instant, the luckless mate, so full of furious life, was smitten bodily into the air, and making a long arc in his descent, fell into the sea at the distance of about fifty yards
28. It has before been hinted, perhaps, that every little untoward circumstance that befell him, and which indirectly sprang from his luckless mishap, almost invariably irritated or exasperated Ahab
29. In this guise the luckless Moody Spurgeon had to go about until his hair grew again
30. She instantly placed under the luckless man’s head a pillow, which no one had thought of and began undressing and examining him
31. I don't know whether you are his wife, but let me tell you that this gentleman gets hold of the advei'tisements on which teachers and governesses have spent their last farthing and visits these luckless wretches with dishonourable motives, trying to lure them to ruin by money
32. On the contrary, she seemed continually priding herself on her luckless lover's action as though it were the loftiest heroism, though she tried to avoid all dis-
33. Not knowing what to think, for the first moment I stood still, numb with horror, but noticing that Elena Ivanovna was screaming too, I quickly turned round—and what did I behold! I saw—oh, heavens!—I saw the luckless Ivan Matveitch in the terrible jaws of the crocodile, held by them round the waist, lifted horizontally in the air and desperately kicking
34. When he finished describing how the luckless man trampled on the money, Lise could not help clasping her hands and crying out:
35. Kolya looked sternly at the luckless dog, who relapsed again into obedient rigidity
36. The luckless dog had to stand without moving, with the meat on his nose, as long as his master chose to keep him, without a movement, perhaps for half an hour
37. Fyodor Pavlovitch, the luckless victim in the present case, was almost an innocent babe compared with many of them
38. After describing the result of this conversation and the moment when the prisoner learnt that Grushenka had not remained at Samsonov's, the sudden frenzy of the luckless man worn out with jealousy and nervous exhaustion, at the thought that she had deceived him and was now with his father, Ippolit Kirillovitch concluded by dwelling upon the fatal influence of chance
39. And he, luckless man, what could he give her now, what could he offer her?
40. But what was awaiting the luckless man? Almost from the first minute at Mokroe he saw that his invincible rival was perhaps by no means so invincible, that the toast to their new-found happiness was not desired and would not be acceptable
41. “I do not draw back one iota from what I have said just now, but suppose for one moment I agreed with the prosecution that my luckless client had stained his hands with his father's blood
42. They lifted a load of care off her heart, and had at once relieved much of the distress she had been suffering since that luckless Sunday
43. To begin with, the luckless Marya Ignatyevna waked up before daybreak on the night of her husband's murder, missed him and flew into indescribable agitation, not seeing him beside her
44. "Farewell, my love! Farewell, my love!" he whispered, shaking his luckless head
45. A man, morally sane, young, free, and absolutely safe from want, has no sooner received the name of district-attorney, of Zemsky Nachalnik, than he pounces upon some luckless widow, takes her from her small children, and throws her into jail, all because the poor woman has been secretly selling wine, and thus depriving the treasury of 25 roubles' revenue
46. Denísov never spoke of Rostóv’s family, but by the tender friendship his commander showed him, Rostóv felt that the elder hussar’s luckless love for Natásha played a part in strengthening their friendship
47. Why, what would become of justice after that? He is a poor man, hopeless, downcast; it makes one’s heart ache: compassion bids one care for him! Yes! There’s no denying, there would be a fine set of head officials, if they took the same view as a reprobate like me! What an addlepate I am! I have foolishness enough for a dozen! Yes, yes! They did right, and many thanks to them for being good to a poor, luckless fellow