good luck

• ““Now is the time for our esteemed Mr. Baggins, who has proved himself a good companion on our long road, and a hobbit full of courage and resource far exceeding his size, and if I may say so possessed of good luck far exceeding the usual allowance-now is the time for him to perform the service for which he was included in our Company; now is the time for him to earn his Reward.””

  The Hobbit

• “Then by sheer good luck I came across a story in the Wall Street Journal that described a successful “cloning” of the human dopamine D2 receptor gene on chromosome 11 by Olivier Civelli at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alcohol and The Addictive Brain

• “Bethune & Co. was a name so well known that she could hardly believe in her boy's good luck in getting into that house in any capacity whatever.”

  Twilight stories

• “In psycho-analytic work a more vague use of "dream material" is preferred and it is only by good luck that the real settings-of-ideas come into account.”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

• “But just to say I miss you baby, good luck goodbye, Bobby Jean”

  Bobby Jean

• “On the bumbling good luck of Boston manager Darrell Johnson: “He keeps falling out of trees and landing on his feet.””

  Simon & Schuster: Baseball’s Even Greater Insults

• ““Well, good luck to Teddy,” Uncle Sunburnt snorted.”

  Simon & Schuster: THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON

• “Undismayed, they ran on, until good luck brought them on to a major road which, acting on the directions of a signpost, they followed in what was roughly the right direction — that is, in the direction taken by their quarry; in other words, to the resort called Welsea Beaches.”

  The Dancing Druids

• “We walked out through the kitchen for some reasonto meet the chef, to pay homage to the pots and pans, I dont rememberkissed Marissa good-bye there, went through a different door and down a different set of stone steps, then shook hands in the parking lot and wished each other a solemn good luck on the dark ride home.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Italian Summer

• “The natural historian is not a fisherman, who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely, but as fishing has been styled, "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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