1 The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 2 At heart, each of them was secretly wondering whether he could not somehow turn Jones's misfortune to his own advantage.
3 In the strength of his misfortune, and the energy of his distress, he fired for the moment like a proud man.
4 It was on this occasion, as during his whole life, John's misfortune, not perfectly to understand the characters of those whom he wished to conciliate.
5 Thus prepared to consider herself as the victim of misfortune, Rebecca had early reflected upon her own state, and schooled her mind to meet the dangers which she had probably to encounter.
6 His was the greater misfortune.
7 His wife was a thin, pale, sharp kind of person with no fortune of her own, and the misfortune of having to regulate her husband's rather sordid amorous exploits.
8 By sitting together upstairs, they avoided a great deal of the disturbance of the house; Fanny had peace, and Susan learned to think it no misfortune to be quietly employed.
9 I look upon her intimacy with those two sisters as the greatest misfortune of her life and mine.
10 She looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters, and thought it would be quite a misfortune to have the existing connection between the families renewed--very sad for herself and her children.
11 "If no misfortune happens," she repeated slowly.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 12 "Well, if that means that your marriage is a misfortune to you, you know who is to blame," said Wildeve.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 13 "The marriage is no misfortune in itself," she retorted with some little petulance.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 14 However, it is my misfortune to be too sudden in feeling.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil 15 When she came to the covered car the horse, though fresh from the stable, was standing perfectly still, as if conscious of misfortune.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together