I'm very unfortunate in that respect....

"It is unfortunate for them," he added.

Hadn't he, of all the unfortunates of the battle, found favor and luxurious quarters in Richmond?

" "That is true," said the King, as Louis XVI had formerly said to Malesherbes; "I am more unfortunate than the ministers, I cannot resign."

Now that I am a man, I am as unfortunate as ever.

On another occasion Alexander, just before he passed the river Granicus, observing the circumstance of time, which was the month Desius, reckoned unfortunate to the Macedonians from all antiquity, it made the soldiers melancholy; he immediately ordered this dangerous month to be called by the name of that which preceded it, well knowing what power and influence vain religious scruples have over little and ignorant minds.

He believed it to be his duty under it to follow these unfortunates into Africa and make provision for them there until they should be able to provide for themselves.

With this view I would suggest that Congress might authorize the President to enter into a general agreement with the Colonization Society binding them to receive on the coast of Africa, from an agent there, all the captured Africans which may be delivered to him, and to maintain them for a limited period, upon such terms and conditions as may combine humanity toward these unfortunates with a just economy.

There were other things besides his own career, his happiness; and the way he was placed, however unfortunate from a selfish point of view, must not breed a morbid self-pity.

All we'll say is that he has been unfortunate like many another man before him, and that for the present he can't come and go as he likes.

It seems unfortunate about the name, but perhaps I can live it down.

' 'Rather unfortunate at this juncture, isn't it?'

Accepting the institution as a fact, he endeavored to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunates by the spiritual cultivation of their minds.

Cæsar, the consul, is unfortunate against the Samnites, and Rutilius is defeated and slain by the Marsi.

And he found such ways as he could to cheer and comfort those unfortunate during their days of trial.

Jamaica, the most unfortunate among the islands, has been constantly the scene of little outbursts of more or less serious rebellion.

A trace of this custom survived, perhaps, in the custom of baking oatmeal cakes of a special kind and rolling them down hill about noon on the first of May; for it was thought that the person whose cake broke as it rolled would die or be unfortunate within the year.

"I have been too unfortunate under my former name," he wrote to Mdlle.

It is said to have consisted wholly of oaks, and among them was one that bore mistletoe, which some persons were so hardy as to cut for the gain of selling it to the apothecaries of London, leaving a branch of it to sprout out; but they proved unfortunate after it, for one of them fell lame, and others lost an eye.

He had a place near the curb, where his big frame shut off the view of the unfortunates behind him.