unfortunate

"MY dear sir," said the editor to the man, who had called to see about his poem, "I regret to say that owing to an unfortunate altercation in this office the greater part of your manuscript is illegible; a bottle of ink was upset upon it, blotting out all but the first line - that is to say - "

My dearest Friend,--I write in the greatest distress; the most unfortunate event has just taken place.

'The name has always been unfortunate. It has now this new unfortunate association connected with it.

Since my unfortunate accident I have preserved the keenest interest in politics.

The rats are most mischievous by their gnawing everything; and I have heard unfortunate tulip-growers complain most bitterly of Noah for having put a couple of rats in the ark."

Such a person as this was certain to find a welcome at Mr Allworthy's table, to whom misfortunes were ever a recommendation, when they were derived from the folly or villany of others, and not of the unfortunate person himself.

The savages approached to dispatch the unfortunate leader, as he lay struggling beneath his horse..

When he found the unfortunate Swallow lifeless on the ground, he said, "Unhappy bird!

Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold.

Hath an evil beast bit thee, thou unfortunate one?"

Sometimes she could believe Willoughby to be as unfortunate and as innocent as herself, and at others, lost every consolation in the impossibility of acquitting him.

Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance, in the first of which he had exposed the atrocious conduct of Colonel Upwood in connection with the famous card scandal of the Nonpareil Club, while in the second he had defended the unfortunate Mme.