" "It's there I'll be, thin," mumbles the woman; "and bad luck to it that I didn't know before; whin I came to ax him for me schore, and might have gone home widout a cint but for a good lad named EDDY who gave me a sthamp.

As to the other game, this was a question of the luck of the toss of the coin.

I had tolerable good luck in the forenoon, and landed on a rocky island to cook dinner.

McGinty seemed more inclined to share his luck with strangers than with the men he had wintered amongst.

There was some bad luck for St. Louis as well as Philadelphia.

Mr. P. did not have much luck at first.

Horribly rough luck on the Morristons as new-comers here to have an affair like this happening in their house.

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.

"The fans have to trust to luck as to the number of games they will see in a world's series, this depending upon the number of games played and possibly upon the toss for a seventh battle.

JEAN ADAMS THERE'S NAE LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE (c. 1771) ROBERT FERGUSSON THE DAFT DAYS (1772) ANONYMOUS ABSENCE (c. 1773?)

"Here's wishing you luck from the whole town, way out here in nowhere.

They laid up on the worn benches of the Silver Dollar or the Same Old Luck like beached vessels, and their talk ran on endlessly of "strike" and "contact" and "mother lode," and worked around to fights and hold-ups, villainy, haunts, and the hoodoo of the Minietta, told austerely without imagination.

No team ever had as steady a run of luck as Boston enjoyed in 1912, unless that team made a lot of its own luck by persistently hammering away when luck was against it and keeping ever on the alert to take advantage of an opening.

"It appears that all his friends, conspicuous among whom was Mr. Walter Hatherell, tried their very best to dissuade him from pitting his luck against that of Cohen, who had been having a most unprecedented run of good fortune.

By good luck through some defect it did not explode, or the house would have been annihilated and everyone in it killed.

I was just a wonderful leathery great joss that had come up with luck out of the water.

"If we have no bad luck before night, we shall have safely concluded our voyage.

They had the luck within the hour to find a deer drinking, and with equal luck Robert slew it at the first shot.

But whatever fortune may bring him we can confidently assert that he is much too fly to chance his luck across the border and into the land where the sausage-machines guard the secret of perpetual motion.

" Indeed, what had quelled him more than anything else was the fear lest he should be driven out to take his luck among the Apaches.

Taking these and other things into consideration I finally resolved to resign my seat in the legislature and try my luck behind the footlights.

But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortunes gates, And conquers its desire.

The 10 and B 9 Mountain Batteries were with the 60th Division waiting to try their luck down the hills, and the 91st Heavy Battery (60-pounders) was being hauled forward with the 53rd.

"Waal!" growled one of the men, with an ugly leer, "we didn't hardly expec' ter run inter such luck ez this.

"They say that crickets bring good luck into houses; and perhaps if we had one at home, mother, who has so much trouble, wouldn't cry any more.