ill-fortune

Liverpool's Rob Jones and Manchester City's Paul Lake would have been international regulars in the preceding generation but for ill-fortune and we should think of them when the barbs are flying about for the regularly "crocked".

England's crocks could have helped the 'golden generation' to shine | Rob Bagchi 2011

These forces are not preternatural -- the Serb militias are real enough -- but by the end of the book one does feel that the Sarajevans are being subjected to a speeded-up version of the distress and ill-fortune life ulitmately inflicts on almost everyone.

Translated Texts 2010

That memorable moment when Swayze finally manages to heave, sorry, lift Jennifer Grey off the ground to recap, they've tried the lift before, for a competition, and not pulled it off … after much ill-fortune, his holiday camp-dancing career seems to be over, and she's been relegated back to childhood … is a metaphor for losing your virginity.

Dirty Dancing: it's not just about sex 2011

A wonderful story of love and revenge, it follows a man's return to London after a miscarriage of justice and transportation in search of his lost wife and daughter who wreaks vengeance on those responsible for his ill-fortune.

This week's new theatre and dance 2011

But more still flowed from this victory, succeeding as it did the disaster of the morning, for the reoccupation of our old camps at once re-established a morale which for some hours had been greatly endangered by ill-fortune.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

He seemed not to notice me and said nothing, so that I wondered if by ill-fortune I had stumbled on a Humper who couldn't talk, but when the sun came close to the horizon he stood and began herding the sheep along a fairly easy route home.

Enjoyment 2010

Loaf was treating him now the way he treated wealthy customers who by some bit of ill-fortune were reduced to stopping at his tavern.

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

It was as though life had been a terrible swindle up until now, and her very ill-fortune made her believe her luck had to change.

The Devil's Bedpost 2010

She had noble soldiers and experienced commanders at her call, yet these did not suffice to stay the tide of her ill-fortune — so lacking in the genius of war were her active directors.

The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 5: The Cookhouse Revolution ewillett 2008

When I reached the Valley pike Crook had reorganized his men, and as I desired that they should take part in the fight, for they were the very same troops that had turned Early's flank at Winchester and at Fisher's Hill, I ordered them to be pushed forward; and the alacrity and celerity with which they moved on Middletown demonstrated that their ill-fortune of the morning had not sprung from lack of valor.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010