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Stace's novel, "Misfortune", is the story of a baby rescued from a cinder heap and raised in the richest household in
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Stace's novel, "Misfortune", is the story of a baby rescued from a cinder heap and raised in the richest household in
April 2005 2005
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Divine Misfortune is a light and wonderful read from start to finish.
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Divine Misfortune is funny, smart, and a book I barely wanted to put down.
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The world of Divine Misfortune is simply too different from our own to have much to say about religion in our world.
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Misfortune is piled upon the stoic, dangerously overweight Precious to the point of toppling – and the story's credibility suffers at times, staggering under the weight of its litany of vicissitudes.
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Undeserved Misfortune is when something bad happens to the hero or heroes so that the audience will feel sympathy for them.
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Here too dwell sensibilities and affections so acute, that they fling wide open the doors of the soul to every one who approaches in Misfortune's name, grant the prayer of Sorrow before it is half uttered, and which the small inarticulate wail of infancy instantly melts into tears of most compassionate tenderness; how are these sensitive fibers wrung and tortured when it suddenly flashes upon them, that the loving hand which has only learned to soothe and relieve the miserable, is commissioned by inexorable fate, to break the fourth seal of the
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Misfortune, which is supposed to be formative of character, seemed to have turned mine into pie.
Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896
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Misfortune, which is greater than I know how to bear, your Counsels may very much Support, and will infinitely Oblige the afflicted
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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