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Sentences starting with unfortunate

Unfortunate are the fortunate if they are lifted into a sphere which is sapless of delicacy of feeling for its own. [4]
Unfortunate tourists! [5]

Sentences ending with unfortunate

She was a widow, and rather poor; consequently she had seen trouble enough to enable her to feel for the unfortunate. [5]
She is very unfortunate! [2]
A misunderstanding on this point would be unfortunate. [9]
The only crime that can be brought against him is that he was unfortunate. [5]
As usual, Irving's sympathies were with the unfortunate. [4]
The price we pay in human life is appallingly unfortunate. [9]
He remembered what old Andrews had said about the young King's goodness and his generous championship of the wronged and unfortunate. [5]
Then you were my guest, and we could not fight; all--all unfortunate. [11]
Fulbert's first name is not mentioned by any author, which is unfortunate. [5]
Years ago Margaret had thought that she might some time be a missionary, at least that she should like to devote her life to useful labors among the poor and the unfortunate. [4]

Short sentences using unfortunate

One more unfortunate! [9]
He's been unfortunate. [9]
Poor, unfortunate creature! [5]
Peculiar and unfortunate. [5]
It was unfortunate. [4]

Sentences containing unfortunate two or more times

Why should I have perilled mine own conjugal peace, given ground for suspicion even--for I am unfortunate, unfortunate in the exterior with which Dame Nature has honoured me! [11]
She resolved to go to her birthplace; she had friends there among the Negros, and the unfortunate always help the unfortunate, she was well aware of that; those lowly comrades of her youth would not let her starve. [5]

More example sentences with the word unfortunate in them

You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! [2]
When they give you the signal, brave Martialis, remember the unfortunate woman in Alexandria whose death you swore to revenge. [10]
Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband. [10]
Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical survey of our last two unfortunate campaigns, and with drawing up a proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. [2]
We are so willing to be lenient to the unfortunate, for a Greater than we has visited them with sorrow such as man could not inflict. [10]
The physician here will now take the melancholy tidings to the unfortunate widow, and then you can talk it all over with her at night. [10]
But the Emperor, who until then had listened to De Soto' here interrupted him to confide the unfortunate suspicion which had been aroused in him the day before. [10]
The unfortunate wretch who fired the train was killed by the explosion, and lay buried hard by, his hands sticking out of the shallow grave into which he had been huddled. [6]
Precisely because he was so strongly attached to this unfortunate woman, once so richly gifted, he desired to offer her the opportunity to obtain pardon from Heaven, and therefore insisted upon her retiring to the convent. [10]
Poor Mr. Stoker was now helpless, faithfully and tenderly waited upon by his own wife, who had regained her health and strength,--in no small measure, perhaps, from the great need of sympathy and active aid which her unfortunate husband now experienced. [6]
If speedy aid was not rendered, the unfortunate man was lost. [10]
But considerable provision was made for the unfortunate and deserving poor--poorhouses were built for them, and collections taken up. [4]
The unfortunate woman was in great distress. [10]
Another lady, who was a friend of hers, and a strong believer in Perkinism, was very anxious to try the effects of tractoration upon this unfortunate blemish. [6]
Each day the walls of this cage grew narrower and narrower, each day they pressed nearer and nearer to the unfortunate prisoner, until in despair he died and the dungeon became his coffin. [10]
Such is the vehemence of these attacks, that the unfortunate subjects of them are often driven backwards for great distances at immense speed, on the well-known principle of the aeolipile. [6]
They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on. [2]
She is so unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! [2]
Woe to the unfortunate victim she overtook! [9]
It is so unfortunate that the spring, which begets so many desires, brings the languor that defeats their execution. [4]
Usually it is unfortunate that a young lady should be observed for the first time at table. [4]
It is an unfortunate sentence, for it could mislead a hasty or careless reader for a moment. [5]
But for an unfortunate remark of his, he would no doubt have entered at once upon a successful career at Dawson's Landing. [5]
What shall the unfortunate person do who has met with one of those disappointments, or been betrayed into one of those positions, which do violence to all the tenderest feelings, blighting the happiness of youth, and the prospects of after years? [6]
Without vouchsafing the unfortunate man even a glance or a word, she entered the nursery before he reached her; but he, feeling that he must follow her at any cost, laid his hand on the lock of the door and tried to open it. [10]
It proved an unfortunate journey; the hot weather was hard on Mrs. Clemens, and harder still, perhaps, on Mark Twain's temper. [5]
Not for the unfortunate in the hospital was she making it, but for him: and that she could do this from the little store that was her very own gave her a thrill of pride. [9]
He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it. [2]
She heard her uncle, the magistrate, speak of her father's unfortunate deed, and tell the Council how the name of Herr Ernst's daughters, who were held in such honour, had become innocently, through evil gossip, the talk of the people. [10]
Who could have told me that I should one day have the satisfaction to look again upon this bit of wood that supported me above the grave that swallowed up my unfortunate companions! [5]
We are kinder to the unfortunate or the dependent than to each other, and we have more charity for them. [4]
It is said to rest on another rock, of which it formed a part before its unfortunate journey, and that lower rock as everybody knows, rests upon the immutable principle of self-government. [4]
Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. [7]
He began trying to explain the unfortunate occurrence, but Berenike admonished him to lose no time. [10]
It was repulsive to endow this explanation of an unfortunate error with a captivating aspect by any theatrical adornment. [10]
Still, to get to Egypt, was something, in the eyes of the unfortunate colonists, hopeless as the prospect seemed of ever getting further. [5]
It was unfortunate to be warmly devoted to a master who had no fear, whom he was obliged to serve as a messenger of love, and who now probably scarcely knew himself whither this love would lead him. [10]
Without permitting himself to be used as a tool, he became an advocate for the unfortunate woman whom he so deeply esteemed. [10]
The unfortunate woman, thus thrown off her guard, flung herself back on her couch and, panting for breath, with tears streaming from her eyes, sobbed aloud, declaring that in the presence of such unendurable insult, such contemptible baseness, she fairly loathed herself. [10]
There being but three thousand of these cave-dwellers--merely the population of a village--would they not come to know each other, after a week or two, and familiarly; insomuch that the fortunate or unfortunate experiences of one would be of interest to all? [5]
Presently, as logical thought returned, her appeal confirmed his first impression--that she was more unfortunate than bad-- and he experienced a sensation of gladness. [13]
He felt that this was a crisis in their relations, and that it had come at an unfortunate hour. [9]
And here was this unfortunate maiden lady smiling at him, setting her limited attractions in their best light, pleading with him in that natural language which makes any contumacious bachelor feel as guilty as Cain before any single woman. [6]
But right at this unfortunate juncture, behold the Spring Valley cooked a dividend too! [5]
And there was this unfortunate deserted sick man lying between life and death, beyond all help unless some unexpected assistance should come to his rescue. [6]
What happened to this second Melchior Ueberhell whose unfortunate history. [10]
The monks call this apartment the "Chapel of the Invention of the Cross"--a name which is unfortunate, because it leads the ignorant to imagine that a tacit acknowledgment is thus made that the tradition that Helena found the true Cross here is a fiction--an invention. [5]
There nine and thirty lashes were bestowed on the unfortunate image, the people crying out that this was the Mosaic Law. [9]
Perhaps all would then be well again, for in this unfortunate action she could recognise the sole wrong which she had ever inflicted upon her lover. [10]
He came to the village, therefore, where Father Pemberton was very glad to have him supply the pulpit in the place of his unfortunate disabled colleague. [6]
It is true, the victory of 1840 did not produce the happy results anticipated; but it is equally true, as we believe, that the unfortunate death of General Harrison was the cause of the failure. [7]
He had seen the unfortunate young man the day before yesterday at the fencing school, and yesterday, full of overflowing mirth, at the dance, and knew that he, too, had fought in the battle of Marchfield. [10]
Well, now that the unfortunate thing has been done, let us do what we can to undo it. [5]
But woe to the unfortunate Rosetta if she overstepped the bounds of respect! [9]
The typesetting-machine and the unfortunate publishing venture were drawing heavily on the family finances at this period, and the cost of the Hartford establishment was too great to be maintained. [5]
The reference to the unfortunate Mr. Blodgett, after taking his breath away, aroused in him an intense curiosity betraying, as it did, a certain knowledge of past events in his life in the hitherto unknown daughter of Augustus interest could she have in him? [9]
The search for the unfortunate men went on. [11]
Els interceded for the unfortunate man, begging, pleading, and assuring her father that she would never give up Wolff. [10]
One trouble with the unfortunate man was that he realized but dimly the gravity of the crisis. [9]
In later times the statues of the unfortunate Queen adorned the places where they had been erected. [10]
Her sale of the star had been only an unfortunate act of weakness, but the dance, the luckless dance! [10]
The mines in the Sinai peninsula, where more convict labor was needed, were the goal of these unfortunate men. [10]
Perlin (1558) finds the people "proud and seditious, with bad consciences and unfaithful to their word in war unfortunate, in peace unfaithful"; and there was a Spanish or Italian proverb: "England, good land, bad people. [4]
Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold. [2]
He then gave the order to admit the Alexandrian citizens, and the words of entreaty died upon the lips of the unfortunate imperial bride, for the folding doors were thrown open and the deputation advanced through them. [10]
And, Jove's thunder, the lady to whom this plotted murder was to have been sent, is doubtless the mother of the unfortunate marquis, whom the Spanish assassin slew. [10]
I believe in the innocence of the unfortunate Philotas, but if he had committed a hundred murders, after this present I would procure his freedom all the same. [10]
You know by the conversation with me that I thought the establishment of the paper unfortunate, but I always expected to throw no obstacle in its way, and to patronize it to the extent of taking and paying for one copy. [7]
Spiza cyanea, during the breeding-season, is of a bright blue colour; and though generally peaceable, it attacked S. ciris, which has only the head blue, and completely scalped the unfortunate bird. [1]
It was not the almost superhuman sacrifices required by his duties;--it came of the unfortunate infatuation of his heart, of which he could not rid himself. [10]
Such, too, was the air of our Red Cross establishment in the ancient building facing the Palace de la Concorde, where the unfortunate Louis lost his head. [9]
She was convinced that the unfortunate king had been forced into something which would bring ruin both to him and his subjects. [10]
It was said that Prince Vasili and the old count had turned upon the Italian, but the latter had produced such letters from the unfortunate deceased that they had immediately let the matter drop. [2]
He was sure that Mr. Greenhalge didn't want to be disagreeable, it was true and unfortunate that such things were so, but they would be amended: he promised all his influence to amend them. [9]
I remembered at that moment a friend of mine in Virginia, the most unfortunate man I ever knew. [11]
It was unfortunate that Mallow won from him three-fourths of the money he had brought to the club, and won it with a smile not easy to forgive. [11]
The object of that expedition, as is well known, was to obtain the person of the Earl of Selkirk, in order to bring about the rescue of the unfortunate Americans suffering in British prisons. [9]
He could not tell them what we say now: "Why fight, why block the road, losing our own men and inhumanly slaughtering unfortunate wretches? [2]
Shall the unfortunate sufferer go all his days with his face turned far round to the right or the left, or shall an attempt be made to replace the dislocated bones? [6]
An arrow had struck Frau Ortlieb's palfrey, causing the unfortunate woman a severe fall, which produced an internal injury, from which she had not yet recovered. [10]
He ruled them strictly until they had proved that Countess Cordula's wish had been fulfilled and, resembling their unfortunate father only in figure and beauty, strength and courage, they had grown into valiant, honourable knights. [10]
Barbara's infamous abuse still fired his blood, but he could not conceal from himself that this unfortunate woman had been wronged by his beloved and honoured master. [10]
The merchant's unfortunate son was not getting better. [10]
A ride of some three hours brought us to Boonsborough, where I roused the unfortunate army surgeon who had charge of the hospitals, and who was trying to get a little sleep after his fatigues and watchings. [6]
And there is so much to do in this great New York among the unfortunate that a woman who knows medicine can do better than any one else. [4]
It became painfully silent, none speaking save in whispers, and all watching with anxious faces either the receding heads in the water or the unfortunate boat's crew. [11]
Gardiner had his shoulders and I his legs; in an unfortunate moment I stumbled and the patient fell heavily on the bed in an agony of torture. [5]
During this self-inspection she did not conceal from herself that, while singing his own compositions to him, she had yielded to the unfortunate habit of promising more with her eyes than she intended to perform. [10]
With fervent warmth she besought her to release her from this newly awakened nature, which surely could not be pleasing in the sight of Heaven, and let her once more become what she was before the unfortunate ramble in the moonlight. [10]
It will be seen at once how such a congenital antipathy would tend to isolate the person who was its unfortunate victim. [6]
These latter qualities seem to be his natural and unfortunate birthright. [1]
For a few seconds we saw our unfortunate companions sliding downward on their backs, and spreading out their hands, endeavoring to save themselves. [5]
What was I saying,--I, who would not for the world have pained our unfortunate little boarder by an allusion? [6]
And I cannot say it is unfortunate for us. [4]
The unfortunate Paulus sat on a stone bench in front of the senator's door, and shivered; for, as dawn approached, the night-air grew cooler, and he was accustomed to the warmth of the sheepskin, which he had now given to Hermas. [10]
He immediately set sail for New York, and next week he will secretly visit you, for love of the dead man, and to thank you and our dear avocat, together with all others who believed in and befriended his unfortunate kinsman. [11]
Mr. Penhallow, Deacon Rumrill, Gifted Hopkins, Esq., and others, came forward immediately, and after much effort succeeded in removing the wreck of the sounding-board, and extricating their unfortunate pastor. [6]
The unfortunate lady referred to, between whom and Slade there existed a warm affection, was at this time living at their ranch on the Madison. [5]
She had not received him, but the unfortunate youth's conduct induced her to hasten the preparations for her departure. [10]
There was never really any money in the "blind lead" of the Wide West claim, except that which was sunk in it by unfortunate investors. [5]

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