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Sentences starting with misfortune

Misfortune is a weapon which cleaves base natures like a sword, yet like a hammer welds noble ones more closely. [10]
Misfortune does not paralyse him. [11]
Misfortune followed us out of Sydney harbour. [11]
Misfortune has broken my once haughty spirit; I yield, I submit; 'tis my fate. [5]
Misfortune could not make her turn from a man; it was then she gave him a helping hand. [11]
Misfortune has done for this old tower what it has done for the human character sometimes--improved it. [5]
Misfortune and pain and penalty he could stand, but sacrifice like this and--and whatever else it was, were too much for him. [11]

Sentences ending with misfortune

Call it what you please, I know that what happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune. [2]
Never, never again would she be arrogant to a neighbour who had fallen into misfortune. [10]
These two, blessed with sudden wealth, projected a visit to New York,--Col. Jack to see the sights, and Col. Jim to guard his unsophistication from misfortune. [5]
It was "Save who can": they were all on a dead level of misfortune. [11]
Was it this which agitated Cleopatra so violently that her voice lost its bewitching melody, as she went on in a harsh, angry tone?--"So that is the source of all this misfortune. [10]
Just now they were most concerned for her bitter misfortune. [11]
The thoughts which were in her mind so completely absorbed her that she now studiously sought the solitude which she had formerly shunned like a misfortune. [10]
No doubt he was shocked, but she could explain it to him, and perhaps he was too much interested in Evelyn to be thrown off by this misfortune. [4]
He would gladly wait there longer to afford the old man's granddaughter an opportunity to soften the tidings of the impending misfortune. [10]
I was called up at dead of night and informed of this fearful misfortune. [5]

Short sentences using misfortune

Has misfortune overtaken you too? [10]
A heavy misfortune threatens me. [10]
Does misfortune cleanse the unclean? [10]
Why such a terrible misfortune? [2]
That is his terrible misfortune. [9]
Such a terrible misfortune! [10]
A misfortune for life? [2]
Here is another, dreadful misfortune! [10]
From misfortune--from misfortune! [10]

Sentences containing misfortune two or more times

He was English--that was a misfortune; he was an actor--that was a greater misfortune, for it suggested vagabondage of morals as well as of profession; and he was a Protestant, which was the greatest misfortune of all. [11]
One thing follows another, misfortune is heaped on misfortune, and on whom do the curses of the starving people fall? [10]
But there misfortune after misfortune assailed him, and he went down, and down, and down, until now at last, weary and disheartened, he had for the present given up the struggle and become the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. [5]

More example sentences with the word misfortune in them

What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
But I assure you that it is my misfortune rather than my fault that I have not pleased you,--that I have met you only to anger you. [9]
But when he yielded to the impulse to read Wolff's letter again he felt like a dethroned prince whom some stranger, ignorant of his misfortune, praises for his mighty power. [10]
Gras had already written twice to his master, telling him with what gratifying patience Hermon was beginning to submit to his great misfortune, when the notary Melampus returned from Alexandria with news which produced the most delightful transformation in the blind artist's outer life. [10]
Oh, if misfortune would draw her again as near to him as during the early months of their married life and directly before it, he could rise from his depression with fresh vigour and transform the battle, now half lost, into victory. [10]
She heard Dunyasha's words about Peter Ilynich and a misfortune, but did not grasp them. [2]
That ugly old woman just looked at me, and if it wasn't the evil eye I shall go straight to the church and drive away the misfortune with holy water. [10]
Barbara had witnessed with very different feelings from Dona Magdalena and her brother how the former regarded every false step of Don John, and especially that of his expedition to England, as a heavy misfortune, and as such bewailed it. [10]
He saw that while Gabrielle lived, a dead misfortune would be ever crouching at the threshold of Freeman's home, that whether the woman agreed to be silent or not, the hurt to Clare would remain the same. [11]
The terrible misfortune which had now befallen him had only bound her more firmly to the man she loved. [10]
Only the soul which ceases to regard death as a misfortune finds peace. [10]
But shall Charmian--who, when her heart throbbed still more warmly and life lay fair before her, laid her first love upon the altar of sacrifice for her royal playfellow--abandon Cleopatra in misfortune from mere selfish scruples? [10]
He thought of what he had done as a misfortune, and not as a crime; he himself hardly knew how it had all come about. [10]
Why, indeed, might we not feel pity for a woman whose brilliant career had been so suddenly extinguished in misfortune and crime? [5]
By stopping here we had the misfortune to lose our excursion, a loss that was soothed by no know ledge of its destination or hope of seeing it again, and a loss without a hope is nearly always painful. [4]
At Colombo, also, we had a misfortune, but it was of a peculiar kind, and did not obtrude itself at once; it was found in an addition to our passenger list. [11]
I thought I was your friend," says he, "and I learn of your misfortune through others. [9]
Today, when there was so much rejoicing on account of Barine, I thought directly, 'Sorrow follows joy, and the second misfortune won't be spared us. [10]
Of course there was no school report in the Union, and Boggs held me accountable, though I was innocent of any intention or desire to compass its absence from that paper, and was as sorry as any one that the misfortune had occurred. [5]
Of course there was no school report in the Union, and Boggs held me accountable, though I was innocent of any intention or desire to compass its absence from that paper and was as sorry as any one that the misfortune had occurred. [5]
But their dialogue was interrupted: the first misfortune of this luckless night had brought its attendant: the body of Rustem, the splendid and radiantly youthful Rustem, the faithful Persian leader of the caravan, was borne into the hall, senseless. [10]
In Paris Margaret was ill--very ill; and this misfortune caused for a time a revival of all the old affection, in sympathy with a disappointment which awoke in our womankind all the tenderness of their natures. [4]
Even the maid was hurled into misfortune through her guilt. [10]
Then, when she was gone beyond recall, he chanced one day to put on the coat he wore when the letters and paper declaring his misfortune came to him. [11]
Meanwhile he constantly urged haste, held out the pass and letter his master had given him and, knowing nothing of the misfortune which had befallen me, charged me to deliver the roll to the prince in his place. [10]
Her heart bled unseen, and his misfortune inflicted new wounds upon it. [10]
But this was unnecessary, for he had scarcely assented to the question ere, with passionate vehemence, she ordered him to destroy before her eyes the cup which had brought so much misfortune. [10]
He had spent two hours at the Colonial Office after he left Jasmine, and now all night he kneaded the dough of a new policy with his companions in finance and misfortune. [11]
Yet even this triumph was a misfortune to Mark Twain, for it led to scores of less profitable book ventures and eventual disaster. [5]
Hay climbed high toward his ideal; when success seemed almost sure, his foot upon the very gang-plank, his eye upon the capstan, misfortune came and his fall began. [5]
So far as tones and expressions and habits which belonged to the idiosyncrasy of the original are borrowed by the student of his life, it is a misfortune for the borrower. [6]
Her suffering seemed to have brought upon her a certain acceptance of misfortune as inevitable. [9]
It has nothing to do with ugliness or beauty, or fortune or misfortune, or shame or happiness, or sin or holiness. [11]
The only thing to do was to have Kingsley removed to a mud-cell, and not let him know the author of his temporary misfortune and this new indignity. [11]
It was mean to be glad about it, but it is the way we are made; I could not have been gladder if it had been my enemy that had suffered this misfortune. [5]
His thin lips tightened, his narrow forehead seemed to grow narrower, and his very cassock appeared to contract austerely on his figure as he talked to the refugee of misfortune. [11]
These are the three signs of misfortune. [10]
Why, even in this house, which the gods have filled to the roof with gifts and favors, misfortune has crept in through the key hole. [10]
But even should they warn me of misfortune at your side, I could not let you go now. [10]
But even if they tell the truth, misfortune, when it does come, always comes much too soon. [10]
But this time they stumbled upon the misfortune of an honest Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. James Guthrie), and he spoiled everything. [5]
It is true they pitied you for being in such misfortune, but still they held you to be mad. [5]
Unmoved by misfortune, they live among the fair beauties of the South. [5]
But scarcely had they left when misfortune took their place as an unbidden guest. [10]
Many had made themselves disagreeable to their neighbours by their caustic criticisms and ill-natured complaints, at the same time bringing misfortune upon themselves by a most curious exhibition of their own faults. [10]
Hosea had met them a mile from this spot and advised them to turn back, that they might not bring their misfortune upon their fugitive brethren. [10]
He glanced at the woman, who had ceased crying, and stood surveying the wreckage with the calmness, the philosophic nonchalance of a class that comes to look upon misfortune as inevitable. [9]
The consul communicated the sad misfortune to the lovely Bianca, for that was the lady's name, who thereupon sent him a lock of her hair, with the request that he would come to see her on his return. [4]
If we use the passage we can reach a dark place on the strand unseen, and unless some special misfortune pursues us our flight will be unnoticed. [10]
He belonged to the Moravian Church, of which I had the misfortune to know little more than what I had learned from Southey's "Life of Wesley. [6]
Not even from the lips of Doha Magdalena, his much-loved "Tia," had his own name ever echoed so musically as from those of yonder woman, whom he had just shrunk from meeting as though it were an inevitable misfortune. [10]
The shouts of the guards, the rattling of the chain, his wretched companions in misfortune, nay, all that surrounded him, could not fail to recall the fate awaiting him. [10]
The bearer of the gift was the goddess of love, and the ornament she gave--so ran the legend--brought misfortune on those who inherited it. [10]
The misfortune is that we who have attained it are but servants whose burdens grow heavier with the increasing number of those who obey us. [10]
Our misfortune was that we had no mother. [10]
It was believed that the martyr died prophecying; that the prophecies sometimes foretold disaster, and it was considered a kindness to those upon whom it was to fall to drown the voice and keep them in ignorance of the misfortune that was to come. [5]
It was said that ill luck of one kind or another always overtook any one who had the misfortune to hear that song. [5]
The misfortune is that his conclusions have been employed by persons incompetent to appreciate their foundation, as arguments in favour of obscurantism. [1]
You probably know that he teaches that life in itself is not so great a blessing that it must be deemed a misfortune not to live. [10]
I meant to tell you of it over the wine at the Thirsty Troopers, but that accursed note and the misfortune which followed prevented. [10]
About that other stone misfortune, cruelly reminding us of the "Boston Massacre," we will not discourse; it is not imposing, and is rarely spoken of. [6]
True, resentment did stir within me as it does in every woman whose lover scorns her; but the misfortune that befell you speedily transformed resentment into compassion, and fanned the old flames anew. [10]
His rage, however, soon subsided in the presence of the strange composure with which his companion in misfortune bore the rudest insults, and Joshua was glad to have the other beset him less frequently with complaints and questions. [10]
It positively announced some approaching misfortune which proceeded from this beautiful creature. [10]
Poor people live so near to misfortune all the time--I mean poor people like Jim, Osterhaut, and Jowett--that changes of fortune are just natural things to them. [11]
The field was sinking under the burden of the ears of misfortune. [10]
Who was it: she, or I, or the refugee of misfortune, Number 116 Intermediate? [11]
The misfortune which she was now enduring had grown out of this lamentable yielding. [10]
Conscience thundered that she should be grateful on her knees for this baptism of fire; that through misfortune, sacrifice, and suffering her soul might be fused pure gold. [13]
Still, even now she might have had good reason to execrate the wearer of the wreath; for she alone, not Lienhard, was the sole cause of her misfortune. [10]
The old clergyman seemed to have renewed his youth since the misfortune of his colleague had incapacitated him from labor. [6]
What the Judge said made a deep impression; but he had determined to drink the cup of his misfortune to the dregs. [11]
It forbid anybody riding on a pass except railroad presidents, directors, express messengers, and persons in misfortune, and they stuck in these words, 'and others to whom passes have been granted by the proper officers. [9]
To be free, released from Sonya... She was right," he thought, remembering what the governor's wife had said: "Nothing but misfortune can come of marrying Sonya. [2]
Dion, with a presentiment that misfortune was threatening himself and his dear ones, obeyed the summons. [10]
These had never presented themselves to her in a country, in a parish, where people said of fortune and misfortune, happiness and sorrow, "C'est le bon Dieu! [11]
The few persons present had gathered in a group and were talking sadly about the great misfortune which had assailed the Emperor. [10]
And when after Pierre's departure Helene returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference due to her misfortune. [2]
And again misfortune overtook the unhappy youth. [5]
Sorrow and misfortune overtake the legislature that still from year to year permits Tahoe to retain its unmusical cognomen! [5]
One misfortune more or less matters little in a life which has been a chain of heavy blows of Fate. [10]
In hers were only the pity of life, the sadness, the cruelty of misfortune, and friendliness for him. [11]
I had but one misfortune with my things. [5]
When you have once laughed at a misfortune, its sting loses its point. [10]
I hate you--for once I will ease my poor, tormented heart--I loathe you; your very existence is an offence to me and brings misfortune on me and on all of us; and besides--besides, I should prefer to keep the emeralds we have left. [10]
I saunter dreamily on my way and never see misfortune till it runs up against me and falls upon me unawares--" "And so you are spared many a gloomy day," interrupted Hadrian. [10]
Thus, as Kit often said, his great misfortune turned out to be the source of all his subsequent prosperity. [12]
So the loss of this letter seemed to her, with reason, a severe misfortune. [10]
On the majority of them you couldn't rely in prosperity, but in misfortune you couldn't do anything else. [11]
If the effect of the nervous shock had stopped there, it would have been a misfortune for my cousin and myself, but hardly a calamity. [6]
Sylvain Couttet, keeper of the cabin there, suspected a misfortune, and sent down to the valley for help. [5]
During the hours of rest which must follow labour, and when tortured at night by the various painful feelings and conditions connected even with convalescence from disease, my restrictions rose before me as a specially heavy misfortune. [10]
You, peaceful inhabitants of Moscow, artisans and workmen whom misfortune has driven from the city, and you scattered tillers of the soil, still kept out in the fields by groundless fear, listen! [2]
After one afternoon of despondency we both voted it the worst of bad policy to remain aloof and nurse our misfortune, and spent our first evening in making acquaintances over a deal of very thin "debtor's claret. [9]
He had an obscure feeling as though fate herself had released him from all his duties, as if misfortune had cut the bonds which bound him to his service to the Emperor, and had made him an isolated and lonely being. [10]
Yet he had not passed through the purifying fire of misfortune in vain! [10]
The inhabitants were not even allowed time fully to realize their misfortune, for instead of bewailing themselves all they could do was to act with circumspection. [10]
You who did not envy me in my happiness will help me to bear misfortune. [10]
I can have no pleasure in her presence; if she comes into the room I feel as though misfortune had crossed the threshold. [10]
I now have no doubt that it is the peculiar misfortune of both you and me to dream dreams of Elysium far exceeding all that anything earthly can realize. [7]

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