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Sentences starting with misfortunes

Misfortunes may be so great and many that one may find grim humour and grotesqueness in their impossible conjunction and multiplicity. [11]

Sentences ending with misfortunes

It is true that these dear creatures are all compassion for every form of human woe, and anxious to alleviate all human misfortunes. [6]
It is only spoiled by having death appear to us as the greatest of misfortunes. [10]
For him her impatience had been patience, her fiery heart had spilled itself in tenderness for his misfortunes. [11]
I think, if I were left to myself, I should hang a rogue and then write his apology and subscribe to a neat monument, commemorating, not his virtues, but his misfortunes. [6]
They crowd about him, and tell him that the truth has gone abroad, and that all the town and country ring with sympathy for his misfortunes. [12]
Where had my fine nobleman been at the critical point of his friend's misfortunes? [9]
Her cause looked dark but, if she did not render his duty harder by the harshness which had formerly caused him much pain, he would do his utmost to protect her from imprisonment, forced labour in the mines, or even worse misfortunes. [10]
I drilled him as representing in turn all sorts of people out of luck and suffering dire privations and misfortunes. [5]
Your fellow citizens are returning every day to their homes and orders have been given that they should find in them the help and protection due to their misfortunes. [2]
She saw and aided the ruin of the empire; but it may be said of her, that her vices were greater than her misfortunes. [4]

Short sentences using misfortunes

New misfortunes came instead. [5]

More example sentences with the word misfortunes in them

In her brief visit to Dion's couch she had not learned how he bore his own misfortunes and Barine's, what view he took of the future, or what he expected from the woman he loved. [10]
Our fellow-citizens will unite with us in congratulating the bride, whose previous misfortunes have only increased the respect in which she is held. [11]
But no one thought the less of him for his pace--that is, no one appeared to, for this sort of estimate of a man is only tested by his misfortunes, when the day comes that he must seek financial backing. [4]
He soon knew the tale of Ranulph's misfortunes, but he had not yet been told of his present plans when there came a quick footstep, and Carterette was at her father's side. [11]
I dwelt upon the obligations I was under to John Paul, relating the misfortunes of that worthy seaman (which he so little deserved!). [9]
The newspaper details the morning after were read with that eager interest that the misfortunes of neighbors always excite. [4]
In addition to supervising its customary affairs, she also shouldered the responsibility of an unusual combination of misfortunes, for besides the critical condition of her mother, her sister, Jean Clemens, was down with pneumonia, no word of which must come to Mrs. Clemens. [5]
Reverses did not subdue Mr. Willett's spirits, and the fascination modern "business" had for him seemed to grow in proportion to the misfortunes it had caused him. [9]
Evidently she could speak of Russia's misfortunes with a certain artificiality, but her brother was too near her heart and she neither could nor would speak lightly of him. [2]
Rostov's deferential tone seemed to indicate that though he would consider himself happy to be acquainted with her, he did not wish to take advantage of her misfortunes to intrude upon her. [2]
He is a Russian seigneur who has had misfortunes, but he is a man. [2]
Thus stripped, he roamed about Normandy in a forlorn condition, occasionally entertained by honorable persons who had heard of his misfortunes, and seeking always means of continuing his travels, wandering from port to port on the chance of embarking on a man-of-war. [4]
The assembly looked on with sensations of awe, probably not unmixed with pity for the fate of an enemy whose bravery had commanded their admiration, and in whose misfortunes their hatred was possibly forgotten. [4]
As she reflected on the last few days and on all that had occurred, it almost seemed as though she herself had been the cause of the misfortunes of her family. [10]
At one end of the table, the old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the story of the misfortunes of some Mary Viktorovna or other. [2]
He was conscious of little except his own misfortunes and misery. [4]
Whenever I read of Indian resignation, Indian patience under wrongs, hardships, and misfortunes, he comes before me. [5]
You can have no conception of the misfortunes come to me out of this quarrel. [9]
Even the noble may submit to the misfortunes entailed by poverty, but the advantages it brings with it he can never enjoy unless he resigns himself to being so no longer. [10]
It was the letter of a man who knew how to appreciate at their proper value the misfortunes, as the fortunes, of life. [11]
I have been in the world, I have lived my life, misfortunes have come upon me too. [9]
She sat there in her royal purple, weeping, forgetful of everything but her mother's grief, her father's misfortunes and her sister's illness. [10]
But in Naples I think they speculate on misfortunes of that kind. [5]
He speaks of his own and Tachot's misfortunes as a just punishment from the Immortals. [10]
I could not help thinking of this; and the oracle, the misfortunes that the stars threatened me with in the course of this year, the cry of the old woman--all these crowded into my mind together. [10]
The misfortunes that have befallen you in these days will end by destroying you, if you will not pull yourself together. [10]
But what misfortunes have assailed me! [10]
Perhaps it was hardly fair to take advantage of their misfortunes to inflict a discourse upon them, but they had brought it on themselves, and we each of us gave them a piece of our mind. [6]
With sound health, good ability, and fair education, he had the cheerful temperament which makes friends, and does not allow their misfortunes to injure his career. [4]
From this time forth, act after act, the troubles and sorrows and misfortunes and humiliations of life beat upon him without pity or respite; but he will not give up, he will not confess his mistake. [5]
Like ears and eyes, hands and feet, many things are by nature double, and misfortunes, as they say, commonly come in couples yoked like oxen. [10]
He desires to end your misfortunes and restore you to your homes and families. [2]
His good looks, education, smartness (we use the word advisedly) and misfortunes seem to have created much sympathy for the captive, but canny Scot. [11]
Thus after a day of hope came a first night of despairing, and many another must follow, and I was to know once more that misfortunes never come singly. [10]
Your misfortunes are cruel, but His Majesty the Emperor and King desires to arrest their course. [2]
Time can not change me, and your misfortunes draw me closer to you. [11]
I dropped into casual employments; no misfortunes resulting, intermittent work gave place to steady and protracted engagements. [5]
However this may be, there is no doubt that Mr. Byles Gridley was beginning to take a part in his neighbors' welfare and misfortunes, such as could hardly have been expected of a man so long lost in his books and his scholastic duties. [6]
Work had come at the right moment to save her from the wild consequences of a nature maddened by a series of misfortunes and penalties, for which there had been no warning and no preparation. [11]
She knew nothing as yet of Mr. Blodgett's misfortunes, but if Austen Vane had depopulated a county it would have made no difference in her affection. [9]
Since her art and beauty first captivated man, she has been his delight and his comfort; she has shared alike in his misfortunes and in his prosperity. [5]
In spite of age and misfortunes, the liberal attitude of these western members of the family was always a matter of perplexity to Edward. [9]
But to lose a good constitution and a better trunk were serious misfortunes. [5]

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