"Ill-fated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... while in the town of Troy. The name alone was quite sufficient to recall to the mind scenes long past and gone. Poor King Priam! Napoleon's sorrows, sad and piercing as they were, did not come up to those of this ill-fated monarch. The Greeks first set his town on fire ...
— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton
... happened more awkwardly and suspiciously? Jack must certainly believe we were all talking about him, and the ill-fated word he had overheard would ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... settled, and finely diversified by farms, orchards and open forest. The soil is perhaps light, but in some places of a stronger description, and all apparently fertile, desirable land. A very beautiful property, originally laid out by the ill-fated Duke of Richmond, and subsequently possessed by Sir Peregrine Maitland, adjoins the Road. The house, which is in the cottage style, of wood, seems large and commodious. This estate is in a very favourable situation, and has been ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 583 - Volume 20, Number 583, Saturday, December 29, 1832 • Various
... encouraging character came from Burman. The deal in corn was being engineered with a riper caution than had been displayed in the ill-fated wheat ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... only known that, at that moment, far out on Crystal Bay, was the ill-fated Dixie, drifting to sea, while the boys tooted hopelessly for aid on the ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose
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