Fickle lady

Usage examples of luck.

Dorraine was all in white as well: stole, cossack hat, and a muff big enough, it occurred to Alacrity in passing, to hold those cute derringers plus a few landmines for luck.

Astrid Schultz looked like she was holding back tears, but Carrie Alameda had no such luck, a tear streaking down her cheek.

As luck would have it, the warder was the same one whom Alec had met on his first visit to the Tower.

He tried to keep his thoughts out of the ambient and had no luck at all.

With any luck at all, you will never focus your glims upon Miss Ames, no matter how illustrious her fortune, or by virtue of whatever scheme your papa and her papa concocted so many years ago.

As they played after supper, and Lord Lincoln followed the noble English custom of drinking till he did not know his right hand from his left, he was quite astonished on waking the next morning to find that luck had been as kind to him as love.

His arm already had been swabbed with iodine, sewn up and bandaged and in a sling and he was thanking his luck that his wound was relatively superficial.

And last, that same ill luck brought this liar to Lavas Holding, this man who tempted my cousin and bewitched him.

Once more Bink had lucked out: he was miraculously untouched by either hoof or needles.

SmithKline Beecham, that exercise in bioinformatics yielded in just weeks a promising drug target that standard laboratory experiments could not have found without years and a pinch of luck.

But as the Biter rolled away from them, exposing her weedy larboard side, four of her guns were fired almost simultaneously, and by luck or judgement they caught the roll just right.

The halfling, with the luck endemic to her race, had skidded to a stop in a particularly soft, boggy area.

Staying on here like he did, still hoping his luck was going to go up or down while your local bogman was dumping contrary evidence all over the table.

One wet day I seen Tiddly climbing into a car and he was never seen again, probably away off to the garage to rub some bogman with his mickey good luck and good fucking riddance.

Fleming and Botts, and by ill luck these two not only arrived together but knew and disliked one another.