Misfortune in example sentence

I told him that my husband was now come on board; that though we were both under the present misfortune, yet we had been persons of a different character from the wretched crew that we came with, and desired to know of him, whether the captain might not be moved to admit us to some conveniences in the ship, for which we would make him what satisfaction he pleased, and that we would gratify him for his pains in procuring this for us.

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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