Misfortune in example sentence

'Thank heaven,' said M. de Renal at other moments, 'I have no daughter, and the manner in which I am going to punish their mother will not damage the careers of my children; I can surprise that young peasant with my wife, and kill the pair of them; in that event, the tragic outcome of my misfortune may perhaps make it less absurd.'

More example sentences with word misfortune

It mostly projects tragedy and fear and misfortune, and it projects that message, that story, so strongly that it almost blots out anything else.

And we all know people who have lots of misfortune, misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have, and they are deeply happy.

He would, I imagine, first of all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people.

The good news is that NASA has a small, secret contingency-plan division that is looking at this, trying to keep knowledge of Orion preserved in the event of such a misfortune.

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