Sentence examples for By ill luck from inspiring English sources

By ill luck, Vikar has taken his hillside stroll on the morning after the Manson family slaughters, and his body art makes him look like Public Enemy No. 1.

Dogged by ill luck (a broken rudder, a captain eaten by sharks) she never won a China race, but later made a packet as the fastest ship on the Australian wool run.

Her brother lies injured after a factory accident that, by ill luck, happened a year before the Employers' Liability Act was passed, and her sister is being beaten by her husband and cannot afford a divorce.

Clara represents a departure from many of Johnson's earlier heroines, women afflicted by ennui, ill luck, resentment, inertia and a host of other ills.

It is a cruel irony that Adam Greenberg, whose achievements owed little to luck and everything to hard work, talent and determination, should have his career brutally thwarted, if not yet quite ended, by the ill luck of one errant pitch during his first at-bat as a major leaguer.

I, by some ill luck, owned the Goldman Sachs' brilliant prodigy and sniper's trashed laptop and had spent over a year trying to figure out how to do DIY interpol work from my East Village hovel.

This is the view not that the Revolution mutated into the Terror by contingency and ill luck but that in some tragic sense the Revolution was the Terror: that the Terror was implicit in the entire rationalist program of starting over from Year One.

"Then, by a stroke of ill luck, I lost it all…This, of course, is nothing extraordinary for Americans".

It was pure luck, or ill luck.

But United's ill luck reared its head within two minutes of the kick-off when Juan Mata was denied a well-worked opener by the Chelsea crossbar.

The custom was meant to rid the place annually of ill luck.