How To Use Ill luck In A Sentence
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To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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Cursing their ill luck, the ad men are spending extra money to remove these posters to make the hoardings visible.
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It is not wise to allow the "deadbeat" -- the remittance man, the gaunt shepherd with his starving flocks and herds, the free selector on an arid patch, the drink shanty where the rouseabouts and shearers knock down their cheques, the race meeting where high and low, rich and poor, are filled with the gambler's ill luck -- fill the foreground of the picture of Australian life.
An Autobiography
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The words of Montoyo had scored deeply, and the presence of our supernumerary laid a kind of incubus, like an omen of ill luck, upon us.
Desert Dust
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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Inasmuch as literary wounds take on the role of ‘talking cures,’ so too is storytelling apotropaic: it has the power to avert evil influence or ill luck.
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All the 'ill luck' -- that is, the untoward circumstances of the year, would be ascribed to the accident of a person with light hair having been the first to enter a dwelling on the mornings referred to.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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We had planned a trip to Bangalore but as ill luck would have it, one of my internal exams has now been scheduled right in the middle of the little break I was banking on.
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Typical of their ill luck was a penalty, awarded for a foot block on Knight, but which was blasted narrowly wide by Ward, who was having such an outstanding game.
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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Naturally, Gurley was disappointed but rather than brood over his ill luck he decided to refocus on qualifying himself academically.
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There was an element of ill luck, but every so often, as gamblers would tell us, long odds do come off.
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Since I do not believe in luck or her less fortunate sister ill luck, I can assume the elders meant to warn us that during this period of time, the Magical Threshold (Scorpio is the sign of magic) that leads into the unknown is wide open.
Gahl Eden Sasson: Venus Retrograde in Scorpio: A Hell of a Time for Midterm Elections
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His ill luck has been whispered about the neighborhood.
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His ill luck has been whispered about the neighborhood.
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And that hapless son of Ham, who happened to be just crossing the main-deck, heard a marlingspike, which by ill luck was lying at hand, flying past his ears.
Westward Ho!
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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Just then, as ill luck would have it, came in the Winchelsea man-of-war, by way of visit, which put the marooners into such a surprise that they set fire to the ship and sloop and fled ashore to the woods.
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
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And, still in the long-run --- say, the next two or three decades (the maximum beyond which any half-way reasonable projecting is impossible, what with the speed of change these days and the uncertainties surrounding China's political stability and future) --- China will lucky to be much more advanced technologically than Taiwan or South Korea today.
China Menace?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The violin, however, weak of voice as it is, always carries the day, and the other instruments steal discontentedly back to their secondary places, the snuffy old violone keeping up a constant growl at its ill luck, and the trombone now and then leaping out like a tiger on its prey.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
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This clearly implies, my correspondent asserts, that there is only one wheelchair available for use for every five passengers who have had the ill luck to be stood on.
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And when you consider that a lot of them, through ill looks and ill luck, are foredoomed old maids and are foredoomed to teach all their lives, you can see how they cut down the period of teaching of the marriageable ones.
CHAPTER II
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To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
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Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.