Misfortune in example sentence

I remained still with my governess, who was for a while really concerned for the misfortune of my comrade that had been hanged, and who, it seems, knew enough of my governess to have sent her the same way, and which made her very uneasy; indeed, she was in a very great fright.

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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