luck

• Saying good-bye and wishing her luck was the decent thing to do. —  Garwood, Julie - Killjoy.html
• Someone with my luck ought to be a little less helpless. —  Eclipse
• But what color says, "You just got lucky, and the luck is all bad, sucker!" because Lili's kiss ais a short skip to the underworld. —  Major Spoilers
• The refrain of his woe was that luck--luck--remorseless luck was against him Luck, since the beginning of the world, has been the cry of him who gambles with destiny. —  The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
• At cards, if your luck is poor, walk round your chair three times, lift it, sit down, and your luck is assured General in the United States. —  Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk

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