* Misfortune and ill luck always attaches itself in a minor degree to every team which engages in a championship contest, but most assuredly Philadelphia had more of its share of reverses through accidents to players and illness than any team of the National League.

For I have e'en no better luck than either of youLet our two Fates warn your approaching one: I love young Bredwel and must plead for him.

We had the tough luck to run into six of the rough-necks, just outside of the little town, where they'd been drinking.

That he completed his work before the destruction came was sheer luck.

" "Sure!" "Remember the run of rotten luck you had that year in Cincinnati, when the ponies was runnin' at Latonia?

Having been previously to the Epsom summer races, and had such extraordinary good luck, nothing but a severe reverse would have induced me to take the step I did.

It happened that, by rare good luck, Tom Bellinghamof the Bellinghams of Assequin, not the Bellinghams of Bellemeade, who indeed immigrated after the War of 1812 and have never been regarded as securely established from a social standpoint,was at this time in pecuniary difficulties on account of having signed another person's name to a cheque.

"You have had rough luck, Berkeley.

In some respects, these fellows seem to have had the most amazing luck.

To this day I am unable to explain how he manoeuvred it, how he adjusted his tactics to counteract mine; but that something happened more than mere luck would account for was certain, for, as often as the half-crown went on black, red was the lucky colour.

He flung out his arm before Quade had fully recovered, and blind luck carried the keen edge of the knife across his enemy's pouchy cheek.

"Nothing serious with a little luck.

Her son had skidded on a slick road and been wiped out by a logging truck, a stupid accident, pure bad luck.

It was vexatious that here, in the very home of Florida gallinules, I should see and hear less of them than I had more than once done in Massachusetts, where they are esteemed a pretty choice rarity, and where, in spite of what I suppose must be called exceptional good luck, my acquaintance with them had been limited to perhaps half a dozen birds.

Everybody would say, 'What cruel luck.

He and his cursed ill-luck were a drag on her and the children, and would always be.

"Oh! if I can only get my camera on himwhat glorious luck!"

"It doesn't seem possible there's nothing left," reiterated the Boy, incredulous of such evil luck.

It was curious, moreover, what very remarkable luck they had; or rather, Ford and Dick, for Dab would not leave the tiller for a moment.

But for marvellous good luck we would have been made prisoners before this, therefore let us reckon it simply as the fortune of war, and not count Jacob the cause of our trouble.

The career of Germany's Naval chief seems to be dogged by persistent bad luck.

Mary Rose Bradford (W); 21Feb66; R384050. Four-eyed luck.

He is rewarded by a smile and a word of praise for his unusual good luck, and with a pat on the shoulder and a promise of a splendid dinner in an hour or two, he is set to work to pluck the birds.

" "It was a piece of stupid luck that saved me when I ought to have known, when I ought to have been sure.

In this case, however, the proverbial luck of the British has been with them.