How To Use Luck In A Sentence
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Luckily, I have a very understanding boss.
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If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
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We were a bit unlucky with the group.
The Sun
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So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room.
Moderately Shocked
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Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
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Brunhild, a mischievous, strong-minded goldfish (the voice of Noah Cyrus, Miley's younger sister), is determined to become a little girl when she's rescued from a jar and befriended by Sosuke (the voice of Frankie Jonas, the Jonas Brothers 'kid brother), a plucky, self-reliant 5-year-old.
No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'
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His season may have turned on a couple of bits of skill and a small dash of luck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not everyone was so lucky, and a lot of people, as always, took the off-ramp from Life.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses
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Having a couple of chances and that luck is missing for me now.
The Sun
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With a bit of luck, this will finally spell the end of those unforgiving hipster trousers.
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There has to be a standard, a level where the candidacy is based on merit rather than on luck.
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A couple of times her footholds cracked and she plunged a few heart-stopping feet, but luckily she grabbed another hold.
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We drove home in silence and, when he parked in our long driveway, I stopped to pluck some ixora flowers while Nnamabia unlocked the front door.
Excerpt: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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You're very lucky to be alive after that accident.
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A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
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I still date chicks who are lucky to own a bedframe.
15 Annoying Things Most Girlfriends Do (That You Have to Put Up With) | Manolith
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So I opened each pod one by one, plucking the beans inside.
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I've circulated a good luck card for everyone to sign.
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Alex's is predestined, of course, and lucky for him he's able to stand up to it.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Luckily I didn't hurt myself when I fell.
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It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition.
Our Frank and other stories
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Only Bartoli could have made best-selling albums out of obscure arias by Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Gluck.
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As luck would have it the winds had been howling onshore for almost a solid week.
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To a large extent the life you have depends on who your parents were; it's just the luck of the biological draw.
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But everything of mine seems so tacky (trouser wise) but luckily, I found a ripper pair in the shop which are simply perfect.
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The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.
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From the outset, we get the kind of writing beloved of a certain kind of creative writing teacher: the kind you can pluck out and quote admiringly.
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This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
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Carpe diem (Pluck the day; Seize the day).
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Good luck to him: but there is no earthly reason why BBC radio should timidly do the same, and debauch one of our greatest programmes in the process.
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Be happy, be cheerful.It's time to celebrate.My friend was born today.Hope your course is charted for lots of luck all the year through.
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Luckily, the company that made it has multiple copies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fishing was certainly tough but several lucky anglers did connect with good fish.
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Luckily I cast a spell on the clothes so you can't take them off.
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The Norwegian's header across goal seemed to leave Arveladze with an unmissable chance, but Culkin made a brave stop and was extremely unlucky that the rebound fell to Reyna, who scored from six yards.
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All I hoped is the luck we thought was on its way to Carlow continues on its journey too.
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The crew are split up and captured by the strange enemy on a planet that luckily has an atmosphere identical to Earth 's.
The Sun
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Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III.
The Rise Of an Empress
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Luckily, there are a multitude of books on hand that can help.
The Sun
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Luckily, someone who wants to produce a bare-bones syndication feed does not need to work very hard.
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You just cannot believe your luck to have landed such an important customer.
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He's gone straight to the top, the lucky bastard.
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Well, luckily for you, the publisher hornswoggled more out of me than this mere introduction.
The Codex Continual » Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected (#3)
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Finally my luck ran out and they caught me trying to climb the outer wall.
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He is also tall, good-looking and ferociously lucky.
Times, Sunday Times
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The guy had one arm in a plaster cast and he's lucky it's not two now.
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As for prominence, some of that is luck, some is skill, and some is being on good terms ideologically or acquaintance-wise with a big-hitter like Instapundit.
Marcotte blames sexism for her troubles.
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I've had some luck getting laid with AdultFriendFinder (it sounds so much sketchier than it actually is, I promise), but if that's not what you're looking for, then stay away.
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing
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I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast.
Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
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Good courage breaks bad luck.
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It is unlucky, but I am not an unlucky person.
Times, Sunday Times
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And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet.
Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
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These are all imponderables and much of it is down to luck in running, in the words of that immortal phrase.
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Luckily it had short sleeves, and she knew that the subtle shade of pale aquamarine suited her colouring.
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Most mornings, we're lucky if we have time to eat a bowl of cereal or toast a slice of bread.
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If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
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Lucky for you teens, Jessica hasn't been flashing any particularly noticeable jewelry on her fingers.
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Which made for a nice complement to another underwhelming, uninspired production from Graham Vick who once again drums up some gray walls to contain the action and wishes everyone the best of luck.
Archive 2008-06-01
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D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs?
Fiancée
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Luckily there was consolation at home in the form of a birth announcement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Does he feel he was unlucky in getting to the top just as the good years came to an end?
Times, Sunday Times
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Luck links two sets of twins.
The Sun
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He worried over her like a mother hen clucking over her chicks.
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By a stroke of luck I came across it in a local bookshop.
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Sound on 18 Doughty Street is mainly some sentences by one person and then cluck chunter chunter squak cluck cluk "so I think..." chunter, "But not withstanding" chunter,chunter.
Steve Norris: 'Let's Get Out of the EU'
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A number of our friends lined up for cuddles with the wee darling, and several photos of people who we had not hitherto suspected of being clucky fussing Rebecca now exist.
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They were not very varied in design and the emphasis was on good luck charms such as four-leaf clovers, horseshoes and wishbones, again set with tiny diamonds.
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Wendy couldn't help but admire the pluck and ingenuity these youngsters showed.
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After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was permitted to depart; but first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour.
Agnes Grey
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Luck is the thing you make happen to yourself – you create or earn your own luck. You cannot control luck, but you can direct your own luck. Dr T.P.Chia
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On Sunday they did not do themselves justice tactically or in terms of conviction, but they are extremely lucky to have a chance of making amends so quickly.
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But luckily it went well!
The Sun
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La película ronda alrededor de la canción "Lucky Manuelo", que compone Jean Vereecken para que cante su hija.
Veruscio Diary Entry
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And if you get a history of going in and mentioning things that have not really been a problem very long, if you're not very lucky, you get a doctor who writes down "hypochondriac" or "drug-seeking," and then when it's still a problem later, you've got that to deal with.
Mrissa: Hollywood broken leg theory
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And if you're really lucky, it will tell you who they bequeathed their money to.
The Sun
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In a moment," Eric said, "the wheelbarrow got bowsed over, when I managed, worse luck, to fall underneath; and then, finding I couldn't get up again, I hailed you, brother.
Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
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Running around this landscape of giant heathers, you will also see ostriches, bonteboks, baboons and, if you are lucky, a fly-past from a blue crane.
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Mark is one of the lucky ones-he at least has somewhere to sleep.
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The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. "Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off, I've got the toe clippers right here". Jerry Seinfeld
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I'm not saying any more at the moment cos as my luck goes, I won't get it.
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Perhaps beginner's luck was at work his behalf?
Times, Sunday Times
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Good luck and God bless you wherever you stray, The world for me ended at mail call today.
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We are all bornwith a serious and unalterable defect: We grow old — at least the lucky among us do — and then we die.
Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive
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Every four years, our brave lads and lasses tend to venture to foreign slopes with faint expectations, which will be duly fulfilled, as they wind up racing to a plucky 32nd in the giant slalom or 29th in the luge.
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We are lucky because we have a ringside seat.
The Sun
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They'll be lucky with relationship kryptonite — the in-laws — there ...
The Sun
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She was plucked from obscurity to instant stardom.
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If you are lucky enough to get a true wild turkey, the flavor match with the mole sauce is fantastic.
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You've gotta be the luckiest guy under the sun to stumble on this.
FINAL RESORT
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The candidates were delighted that the public came to cheer them on and present leis of flowers to wish them luck.
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Ben Muirhead mishit it like normal and luckily I was able to react quickest - it's just goal-poacher's instinct!
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That diamond horseshoe is her lucky charm.
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Luck is really running against you tonight!
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With any luck, they'll be able to sustain this level of quality when the gang end up in Arizona.
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It was just my luck that at that moment a police van with nine or 10 coppers in it drove by.
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Chickens clucked about, scratching up dust into tiny dust devils with their claws.
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With luck, we'll find definitive proof that Solutrean peoples came over from Europe, built the pyramid, and colonized the New World," says Coe.
Pyramid Found in New England
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What she offers for six lucky passengers is simple comfort, sumptuous meals and bags of character.
Times, Sunday Times
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Luckily for the neighbours, the musical learning process was swift.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have one every three minutes or so, whereas Albert Square is lucky to see one a year.
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Steeton reserves were unlucky to go down to a one goal defeat at league leaders Bay Athletic.
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Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center dug up a pristine copy of this classic film and scheduled two showings; I was one of the lucky few who got a chance to see it.
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But the Gods were once more on my side, I took very kindly to flying instruction, but again I was lucky.
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If you're really lucky a Central Line train will already be standing there waiting with its doors gaping open.
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I wrote two awful essays and was lucky to scrape through the exam.
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If you're really lucky, you may be able to locate a hunk of lard.
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Luckily I was feeling in a good mood.
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Although she was lucky not to have been separated from her son, Noreen was shocked by the situation they found themselves in.
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But their leaders were full of admiration for their pluck and cheerful acceptance of the conditions.
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That be a wretched piece of luck.
A Time of War
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Oh, and let me tell you… I already did my hair, brushed my teeth, shaved, plucked, primped, deodorized, sprayed myself with cologne and got dressed before he even picked out the underwear he was going to wear.
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Luck takes you to look around an unusual house.
The Sun
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Luck is a name underlined in red.
The Sun
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The kindness you show to a colleague surprises some people but has a lucky outcome for you.
The Sun
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Scragg, meanwhile, stuck to her graymare, and went bumping along to the admiration of all beholders, and was soon out of sight: luckily a joskin, who witnessed my dear aunt's immersion, ran to her assistance, and, with the help of his pitch-fork, safely landed her; for unfortunately the pond was not above three or four feet deep! and so she missed the chance of being an angel!
Sketches — Volume 05
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He was lucky to escape with just a bruised ego when he fell off his bike.
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On the field, the pretournament expectations were more pedestrian and luckily dashed.
A Fun, Creative Germany
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Lucky for me I brought the full-faced respirator and self-contained breathing apparatus with me.
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The non- white Americans are the lucky guys in a new America. Dr T.P.Chia
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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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Luck smiles in a building surrounded by tall trees.
The Sun
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The trick, I have decided, is to try not to appear as though you can't believe your luck.
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He said he eats ‘anything that used to moo, cluck or oink - as long as it's cooked.’
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A lucky crew might see six such nests on a half-day hike.
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She's off to Greece for a month-lucky devil!
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Luckily for us, although they have some fussy tastes, many of the bacteria they like to eat are major pathogens, so they eat proteus and proteus is a bacterium that causes a lot of urinary tract infections.
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The best ways to find a shoe tree are luck, accident, or word of mouth.
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Starring Dennis Quaid, it is the latest in a line of American sports movies to try their luck in front of largely uncomprehending British audiences.
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Local couples circle the stupa for good luck.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they are very lucky there may be some fruit, wild plums or a crab apple.
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His photograph of two camellia brooches could just as easily have been a study of two bold flowers plucked from a garden.
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They say it's bad luck to spill salt.
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Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
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They were lucky to escape with only mild concussion and bruising.
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He was lucky to have chosen traits in his plants that are governed by such genotypic interactions by luck; if he'd observed phenotypes influenced by polyploidy he would probably have concluded that 'god did it.'
Full Text Of Obama's Big Race Speech: A Big Break With Political Precedent
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Earlier Aronhold had worked on plane curves and the problem of the nine points of inflection of the third order plane curve which had been discussed by Plücker some time before.
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However, they still had no luck as, here again, there was no clear signal.
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‘We just plucked our bags from the hold of the aircraft, and drove off,’ he says.
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Just the chance to transcribe the manuscripts was the most fantastic luck, the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.
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Slumping forward onto the gigantic gadget, he mumbled, Good luck finding enough ice for hockey on this dustball.
Reap the Whirlwind
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You can think yourself lucky you didn't get mugged.
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Luckily, I've anticipated and manage a pre-emptive strike while he's still taking in the last statement.
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Luckily i dont, but what i do want to say about all this hate you have towards Islam, and the pakistani's in particular, that "dare" try to live in your town, well first tell how does this sound lionheart:
Dunstable - Death threat & the Al Qaeda connection
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She remains, as she always has been, a pleasant, thoughtful young woman, but the luckless Schnyder found her in mean mood.
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The lucky winner will be able to choose from three different holidays.
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He could hardly believe his luck, and used his Northern grit and determination to become a local and national hero.
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Jupiter adds the luck that helps make an ambitious family reunion happen.
The Sun
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He was lucky enough to find one of the walrus ' tusks whole and undamaged.
THE BROKEN GOD
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a plucky lampooner of the administration.
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Luckily, the banks of Loch Fyne, the longest sea loch in Scotland, are ideal for cultivating both oysters and mussels.
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A quick call to Young Watski who was luckily in the area secured the loan of his car for the rest of the day.
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I should add that we are very lucky.
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But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. George Washington
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I kid myself, of course - but I like to pretend the thing brings good luck.
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Luckily, we stopped in during happy hour to take advantage of the $4 maki rolls and $5 mojitos.
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But, if you mean, as so many seem to, that they should NEVER see any of it and intend to block every avenue certain realities may follow to get to them, well … good luck with that!
Blocking the information highway
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For the pain of failing to catch some shut-eye at night is known only to those unlucky ones who experience sleep disorders.
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These threaded, plucked or shaved young soldiers are proving befuddling to an older generation of bushier warriors.
About-Face: Soldiers Target Stray Eyebrows in Afghanistan
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Some lucky people are endowed with both brains and beauty.
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People using graphical Web browsers who have poor eyesight or who forgot their reading glasses may be out of luck, too.
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And my father was not to accept excuses about the strokes of bad luck or the bad weather.
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We were a little bit unlucky in one or two situations, then the goalkeeper saves and it is 0-0.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Germans were lucky to beat Hungary in 1954, lucky to beat the Dutch in 1974 and fluked their way to the final in 2002.
Truth takes a battering in the great World Cup cliche game
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Luck compares _Met_ XIV 465 'admonitu quamquam luctus renouentur amari' and _Met_ XV 244-45 '_quae_ [_sc_ elementa] _quamquam_ spatio distent, tamen omnia fiunt/ex ipsis'; in the first passage a few manuscripts and in the second the majority offer the indicative.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Other youngsters are not so lucky.
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A perfect game requires a perfect combination of skill, concentration, and luck.
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He wished the crew, skippered by black yachtswoman Cole, good luck, adding: "We'll watch.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Good luck and kudos to you for taking an interest in a needy child.
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Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a recent exile from London, who also loves scouring the beaches.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR JANUARY 3RD | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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It was pure luck to get the verbena butterfly shot, I was trying to take pictures of the eremurus nearby and just turned around, the camera was already on.
I Thoughteth They Were Flowers « Fairegarden
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He walked on bravely, looking neither to the right nor left, till he reached the centre and plucked the tallest ear; but as he turned homewards a thousand sweet voices rose behind him, crying in tenderest accents, 'Pluck me too! oh, please pluck me too!'
Tales of the Punjab
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‘Luckily our fire marshals reacted in time and prevented the total loss of an expensive participating vehicle,’ he said.
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I'm lucky that beast didn't bite my arm off.
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Thou too, O Pylades, trusty squire, whose training shows thy father's sterling worth, receive a garland from my hand, for thou no less than he hast a share in this emprise; and so I pray, good luck be thine for ever!
Electra
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Fortunately for us, we had made ourselves perfectly acquainted with the country the previous day, and instantly realized that escape by our right (as we faced Lucknow) was impossible, because of a huge impassable _jhil_.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
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Lucky money is given to kids as a token of luck and best wishes.
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Luck is building for an ambitious plan for a family reunion - it takes teamwork and you have a key role to play.
The Sun
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Entitled Aquila after the swooping eagle found in John Flamsteed's 1729 Atlas Coelestis, its merits do not really derive from any imitation of eagles actual or imagined perhaps luckily, given that Flamsteed's eagle resembles a grouse.
Chroma chamber ensemble – review
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It is immoral and absurd to shackle all citizens because of the feared imprudence or disastrous luck of a tiny percentage.
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With luck, she should - if she followed her usual pattern - remain in bed until around noon.
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Grow young players only for richer rivals to pluck the fruit when it is ripe?
Times, Sunday Times
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Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red.
Over the Edge
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You escaped serious injury by a whisker, so consider yourselves very lucky.
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The unlucky bobble saw the ball hit Merris on the arm as he swung to clear and referee Phil Prosser pointed to the spot.
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Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away.
Touch of Evil
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The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. "Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off, I've got the toe clippers right here". Jerry Seinfeld
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Must be illegitimate - election, what election, he "lucked" into job.
Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion"
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What luck, cried the student and plucked the great flower.
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An infinitesimally small step for mankind, maybe, but one ginormous step for this unlucky man.
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The only material difference between grand hazard and chuck-a-luck is in the layout: the grand hazard layout is more complex and provides spaces for wagering on odd or even, high or low, triples (called raffles), and any number the dice may total, from 4 to 17.
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Though I’m lucky, I suppose; the area where I live (Brooklyn) is lousy with freelancers, so delivery guys don’t give me any funny looks when I answer the door in jammies or look like I just woke up from a nap (though I usually don’t nap; I apparently just look sleepy when I’m really in the Zone with wordcount).
Admitting to an infection of words «
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The best of his five hopefuls is surely Lucky Story, who won four races last season.
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Lucky for Gary, he's got quick reflexing and good hands.
Gary Vaynerchuk is One Crazy, Wine-Swilling Dude
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It is one of the results of the unlucky fancy of scholars for re-editing already accessible texts instead of devoting themselves to _anecdota_, that work of the first interest, like
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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Well, first of all, you have to get the right ones, and we really lucked into these three.
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We've been very lucky with the weather.
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Luckily I only get homework about once a month.
The Sun
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The autumn air is thick with assertions that the Prime Minister's luck is finally running out.
