1 We arrived at Lincoln's Inn Fields without any new adventures, except encountering an unlucky donkey in a costermonger's cart, who suggested painful associations to my aunt.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI... 2 His old simple character and good temper, and something of his old unlucky fortune also, I thought, smiled at me in the smile with which he made this explanation.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES 3 That first unlucky obligation, I have paid.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME 4 In this condition, he felt more incapable of finishing the Memorial than ever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that unlucky head of King Charles the First got into it.
5 This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me.
6 The race was an unlucky one, and of the seventeen officers who rode in it more than half were thrown and hurt.
7 But it was an unlucky day for him; he missed it, and when he went to look for the one he had shot, he could not find that either.
8 He restrained himself however, and the little squall would have blown over, but for one unlucky word.
9 Especially that they should revenge themselves on the unlucky bones of those who have not had the satisfaction of enjoying them.
10 It is unlucky," said she, after a short pause, "that you should not be able to see your friends before they leave the country.
11 I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so able to expose my real character, in a part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit.
12 I had been long afraid of this resolution, and therefore concealed from her some little unlucky adventures, that happened in those times when I was left by myself.
13 The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the vehicle rested on his breast.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT 14 Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC 15 I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN