There's too many hard-luck stories lying around loose in the gamblin' game.

" "Friend, that's a hard-luck story," said Kurt.

I don't believe in hard-luck stories.

This kind spends most of its time polishing a bench with a hard-luck story.

A sturdy beggar-man, a specimen of decayed gentility, once called on Tammas with a hard-luck story and a Family Bible, and asked for a small loan on the Good Book.

In a few weeks the man came back, and tried to tell Tom his hard-luck story concerning the Cold Ingratitude of a Cruel World.

If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime.

"If she was in difficulties we" "Naw, Florette wasn' that kind; nev' put up any hard-luck story y' un'erstan'.

The timorous but trusting little Grass Widow sat beside the Business Manager and told him her Hard-Luck Story in low, bird-like Notes.

Thorn's life for the next few years was the whole series of hard-luck parables, with a few chapters from Job thrown in, and then one day he met old Jim.

" "You wouldn't believe a hard-luck story, so what's the use?" "Ain't any.

"I was so took up with his affairs I didn't watch out careful, and that ain't wise in a hard-luck country.