I might have known it would bring me bad luck.

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

Tell him I wish him Luck in every thing, But in his Love to me Go tell him I am viewing of the Garden.

They are floundering about looking for quarters," he added, in immeasurable relief, as the voices of the riders sounded through the darkness, cursing luck, the road, and everything else.

"What luck he'd been having!" said Ford.

She knew the luck he meantthat of her mother's having so enabled him to get rid of her; but it was the nearest allusion of the merely invidious kind that he would make.

"I never 'ave no luck," ses Bob; "but if Henery Walker will draw fust, I'll draw second.

Noaks looked at me and said, 'Hullo, here's luck!

They sound so sad in the still air that the expression, Ca sonne a Bouleurs, has come to mean bad luck.

The Camel Transport Corps fought the elements with a courage which deserved better luck.

Quoth he, "If I do not change my luck in haste, I am like to have an empty day of it, for it is well nigh half gone already, and, although I have had a merry walk through the countryside, I know nought of a beggar's life.

"I'll have it," said the cowpuncher quietly, "I've got gambler's luck.

An ash leaf is still frequently employed for invoking good luck, and in Cornwall we find the old popular formula still in use: "Even ash, I do thee pluck, Hoping thus to meet good luck; If no good luck I get from thee, I shall wish thee on the tree.

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

In Scotland it was formerly customary to carry on the person a piece of torch-fir for good lucka superstition which, Mr. Conway remarks, is found in the gold-mines of California, where the men tip a cone with the first gold they discover, and keep it as a charm to ensure good luck in future.

"Sometimes one must trust one's luck, and venture.

"Your lordship'll honour us by taking pot luck afterwards.

I played in up and down luck for three or four hours; then, worn with nervous excitement, quit, having lost about fifty dollars.

You two seem to have about all the fun there is going, hang the luck, say I?"

In what may well be its oldest and simplest version it is said that in his form as Camaxtli he caught a deer with two heads, which, so long as he kept it, secured him luck in war; but falling in with one of five goddesses he had created, he begat a son, and through this act he lost his good fortune.

Anyhow he blessed his luck that an accident had so quickly broken the ice and established a state of confidential relationship between them.

My companion and all my friends shouted to me to follow up my luck.

you always have old shoes on; toss one, and shout, 'Good luck!'" cried Di, with one of her eccentric inspirations.

"We're going to drink luck to the biggest thing Sir Stephen has ever done; you'll join us?

He did not seem to be enjoying his luck.