"Unlucky" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shoulder one another as they stoop and with both hands grab up as many snakes as they can hold in their fingers, and suddenly separating, turn and face towards the edge of the rock, running with all their might, thrusting the snakes into the faces of any unlucky tourist or visitor who ...
— The High Calling • Charles M. Sheldon
... Yuletide from the cave in the Horselberg, which is the scene of Tannhauser's adventure with Venus in Wagner's opera, and Holda is the mother of many of the uncanny creatures which strike terror to the souls of the unlucky huntsmen who ...
— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... crack, a flap, a rattle; and blank dismay! An unlucky shot had cut the foremast in two, and all forward was a ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... territory, with feudal rights and privileges, was offered to any man settling a colony of fifty persons. The disputes which soon arose between these powerful vassals and the sovereign Company had for one effect the recall of Peter Minuit from his position of governor. Never again was the unlucky colony to have so competent and worthy a head as this discarded elder of the church. Nevertheless the scheme was ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
... time, though Lincoln played an active local part in the campaigns of the Whig party, concern us little. The Whigs, to whom he did subordinate service, were, as has been said, an unlucky party. In 1840, in the reaction which extreme commercial depression created against the previously omnipotent Democrats, the Whig candidate for the Presidency was successful. This was General Harrison, a respected soldier of the last war, who was glorified as a sort of Cincinnatus and elected ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood
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