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misfortune
1. I had the misfortune to work at a company that was not recognised as being “world class”
2. Prostitute: If a man dreams of a prostitute, he will have misfortune, poverty and shame
3. Sigh: If you hear a sigh in your dream, something is wrong with your love life; if you sigh, you will have misfortune
4. It was a casual sail between choke points, and ships going by on the uphill side of the sandbar could hail them and chide them on their misfortune
5. To many people, he is wonderful, and it's my misfortune to be the only person he wishes to abuse
6. 14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is
7. wondered if perhaps this misfortune had been sent as a
8. His father had never seemed angry at his misfortune, never had a
9. There are Men who are mean, petty tyrants who love nothing more than to laugh at the misfortune of others and care more about amassing wealth than about protecting the innocent
10. There are Women who are mean, petty tyrants who love nothing more than to laugh at the misfortune of others and care more about amassing wealth than about protecting the innocent
11. Many were too weak to continue on, and had the misfortune to lie down in his path
12. ‘Your family’s had a lot of misfortune, by the sound of
13. misfortune is then capable of balancing the hope of good luck, appears still more evidently in
14. misfortune which was about to befall them
15. continue at that place where he has had the misfortune to acquire what is called a settlement,
16. Whenever he had the misfortune to run into her, which was usually when Nathalia came to visit, the girl would stare at him for the duration
17. Wouldn’t it make sense for all subsequent misfortune to arise from this? That’s how it was with my family, at least
18. They were introduced to preserve a certain lineal succession, of which the law of primogeniture first gave the idea, and to hinder any part of the original estate from being carried out of the proposed line, either by gift, or device, or alienation; either by the folly, or by the misfortune of any of its successive owners
19. Maileena remained quiet in turn, yet her eyes reflected that this was true, that she truly had the misfortune of working at the god-forsaken club
20. "Knows that we had the misfortune of losing our key evidence, and will later hear from Dillard how much money and time were spent on this case, which will convince him to let the matter go instead of spending that same amount again
21. My dear Mr Dickinson, you are the most cynical young twat I have ever had the misfortune to encounter
22. The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine
23. Only lessons to be learned through suffering and misfortune
24. No longer would they consider themselves unfortunate in all those cases of suffering or misfortune
25. suffer the slings and arrows of misfortune and those
26. In such circumstances, to prohibit the servants of the company from trading upon their own account, can have scarce any other effect than to enable its superior servants, under pretence of executing their master's order, to oppress such of the inferior ones as have had the misfortune to fall under their displeasure
27. Such exclusive companies, therefore, are nuisances in every respect; always more or less inconvenient to the countries in which they are established, and destructive to those which have the misfortune to fall under their government
28. Such corvees, as they are called, make one of the principal instruments of tyranny by which those officers chastise any parish or communeaute, which has had the misfortune to fall under their dspleasure
29. Slain, because they had the misfortune to be born less then two years before
30. Anyway, Doc had had a good laugh at his own misfortune and he would milk mileage out of the story in the retelling
31. Both had a past, hampered by misfortune
32. They were tired, fed up and hungry by that time and swore revenge on the sergeant and all of us who were cracking up at their misfortune
33. As he tore at the flesh of the scrawny squab he'd found under a nearby tree, he brooded on his misfortune
34. It was Darkburst's misfortune that this same monotony also proved to be his undoing
35. It was their misfortune that they were not
36. “They had the great misfortune to run into von Richtofen and his gang on their very first patrol,” I explained
37. What if by some unforeseeable chance of misfortune, Earth developed star drive on her own? The thought was utterly horrifying
38. They knew not where to look, so they cruised the streets of wretched poverty and questioned a few whose misfortune it was to call this place home if they knew of Herminia, her ‘mother’ or her three children, to no avail
39. But Cain could not be happy for his brother’s good fortune; he could think only of his own misfortune and misery
40. If this was only a dream, he hoped that he would not have the misfortune to awake from it
41. Our Project is the definitive solution, it puts an end the those barbarisms and it saves our African siblings of that slaughter so that the people live with dignity to continue offering as a gift its fantastic culture and rich tradition to the human society, without we stay only commoving us with continuous news of its misfortune and slavery
42. In this rapidly congealing context, it might be asked who then were the authentic visitors? The real visitors might have been taken as demons that brought misfortune and disease, or the very gods they celebrated in their rituals
43. To the sachem all misfortune, including disease and death, came from spirits inspired by his tribe’s enemies
44. While there may have been some outworking of karma, the misfortune has nothing to do with luck
45. When the unexpected happens, and we meet with difficulties, failures, and misfortune, we realize that we may be reaping what we have sown, and that we are wiping off a past debt
46. But when getting run down by a bicycle delivery man didn’t do it, or being gored on the train, or gashed by a knife – when almost electrocuting herself just changing a light bulb, and even nearly drowning in the East River still didn’t do it, the one misfortune that Sierra considered so awful that it put an instant stop to her goading of Obeah practitioners, was an attack on the part of her body she valued the most
47. I told him that it was not good to rejoice in another’s misfortune, no matter how richly deserved it was in our opinion, but at the same time we could not be expected to mourn over the loss of a seemingly evil person
48. of it, he was glad that he hadn’t had the misfortune of meeting
49. He just lay there cursing his god and his misfortune yet again;
50. Fortunately, I have not had that misfortune, and I earnestly hope I never will