Ill-luck

Ill-luck, it was, a destiny laid down eight hundred years gone by, and my Prince of Trav­ellers caught in it.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Ill-luck touches all who touch her; those who dare to love her see their doom in her eyes.

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

CHAPTER X. "Ill-luck is a _bêtise_," said the great Cardinal Richelieu; and on the long run, I fear, his eminence was right.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

To Balzac's suggestion that, to avoid difficult and local proper names in poetry, generalized terms be used, such as _Ill-luck_ for the _Fates_ and the _Foul Fiend_ for _Lucifer_, our critic replies with jaunty irony, "... and whether this wou'd not sound extreamly Heroical, I leave any Man to judge," and thus he dismisses the matter.

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

Ill-luck attended them from the outset: a storm, no unusual phenomenon with November coming on, drove the ships back into shelter at Corsica.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

QUOTATION: Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Quotations 1919

Ill-luck is a contagious disease; and one unconsciousness will often infect another.

The Buried Temple Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

This Duchess de Mazarin was said to have been endowed on her birth by three fairies, Wealth, Duty and Ill-luck.

Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

Ill-luck, he argued, combined with Sagan's blundering, had done the rest.

A Modern Mercenary Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard 1899

Ill-luck pursued the hapless ship even to her home port; for, as she was entering the port of Boston, a sudden squall carried away the topmast, with several men who were aloft at the time.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898