Washington, who had been unlucky in the affair of last yearhad already promised to join him as aide-de-camp, and his Excellency would gladly take another young Virginian gentleman into his family.

Thus the peasantry in some places affirm that the dropping of the leaves of a peach-tree betokens a murrain; and in Italy it is held unlucky for a rose to do so.

The piannet, as we call her in the North of England, is the most unlucky of all birds, to see singly at any time; this, however, does not often happen, except a short time during incubation; they either appear in pairs or in families; but even this last appearance is as alarming to our grandmothers.

Claudius, indeed, who had been as unlucky as Henry VIII.

He, more stupid or more unlucky than the rest, struck us a full broad-side as he went by jolting us hard against the hill, and well-nigh jolting himself down the craggy descent into the abyss below.

We attempted to get up "Poor Pillicoddy," but were very unlucky about it.

This morning we were unlucky with our deer.

"Unlucky at cards, lucky in something else," said he, self-consolingly.

Everything is dangerous if you are unlucky by nature....

It is unlucky on Frank's account likewise.

But we find, in like manner, the same day lucky and unlucky to the same people.