What is "misfortune"

Usage examples of "misfortune".

The misfortunes and tragical death of this God were an allegory relating to the Sun.

It is a curious and a mystical fact, that at the period to which I am alluding, and a very short time, only a little month, before he successfully solicited the hand of Miss Milbanke, being at Newstead, he fancied that he saw the ghost of the monk which is supposed to haunt the abbey, and to make its ominous appearance when misfortune or death impends over the master of the mansion.

His personal misfortunes will prove the anarchy of the government and the ferociousness of the times.

The merit and misfortunes of Ali and his descendants will lead me to anticipate, in this place, the series of the Saracen caliphs, a title which describes the commanders of the faithful as the vicars and successors of the apostle of God.

The overloaded appetite loathes even the honeycomb, and it is scarce a wonder that the knight, mortified and harassed with misfortunes and abasement, became something impatient of hearing his misery made, at every turn, the ground of proverbs and apothegms, however just and apposite.

Concealing, or at least attempting to conceal, from the public knowledge the misfortunes of his arms, he indulged himself in a vain confidence which deferred the remedies of the approaching evil, without deferring the evil itself.

At the period of our history, the solicitors frequently sought the judge with the request that he would appoint an agent whom they proposed to him, --a man, as they said, to whom the affairs of the bankrupt were well-known, who would know how to reconcile the interests of the whole body of creditors with those of a man honorably overtaken by misfortune.

The honorable bankrupt overtaken by misfortune is then master of the situation, and proceeds to legalize the theft he premeditated.

I have made many happy, and have never brought misfortune to any girl.

Whenever I met with honest persons expressing a curiosity to know the history of the misfortune under which I was labouring, and whenever I satisfied their curiosity, I have inspired them with friendship, and with that sympathy which was necessary to render them favourable and useful to me.

Sir Charles Lucas, that humane prince, suddenly recollecting the hard fate of his friends, paid them a tribute which none of his own unparalleled misfortunes ever extorted from him: he dissolved into a flood of tears.

Hotshot With a Hyphen was the meanest woman Staci Ellen had had the misfortune to meet in all her born days.

Hitherto you have been famous for your deeds, but henceforth you shall be a manslayer and an outlaw, and most of your deeds will turn to your own hurt and misfortune.

MILAN AND MANTUA CHAPTER XX Slight Misfortunes Compel Me to Leave Venice--My Adventures in Milan and Mantua On Low Sunday Charles paid us a visit with his lovely wife, who seemed totally indifferent to what Christine used to be.

If one microchip, by some rare misfortune, were to fail, then two others remained to accept sensory data and provide control commands.