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457 examples of Misfortune in a sentence

What fault had she committed, then, that misfortune would never give her any rest?
Would it not soon be done with, this cursed life of misfortune?
It was he, the exploiter, the murderer, who was the sole cause of their misfortune.
Was it in fact his fault, this misfortune which was making him bleed, the wretchedness of some, the murder of others, these women, these children, lean, and without bread?
This misfortune would arrange everything; he preferred to keep his nephew for fear of his coachman.
The Hope and the Search passed right by Vanikoro without stopping there; and overall, this voyage was plagued by misfortune, ultimately costing the lives of Rear Admiral d'Entrecasteaux, two of his subordinate officers, and several seamen from his crew.
I looked at his intelligent head, furrowed with premature wrinkles that misfortune, perhaps misery, had etched long before.
In his exasperation, Monsieur Bovary the elder, smashing a chair on the flags, accused his wife of having caused misfortune to the son by harnessing him to such a harridan, whose harness wasn't worth her hide.
Emma had wept, grown angry; she had accused Charles of this misfortune.
It is a misfortune!"
Tell him, tell him, to make him angry, that I defy all evil-speakers, and that there is but one misfortune in the world for me, that of beholding a change in the one man who holds me to life.
'To all of them, to all of them,' he cried in his rage, 'my appalling misfortune will give the most intense pleasure.'
'What misfortune is comparable to mine?' he exclaimed angrily.
'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.'
The great misfortune of the small towns of France and of elected governments, like that of New York, is an inability to forget that there exist in the world persons like M. de Renal.
He did, as a matter of fact, astonish his fellow-students; but this was a fresh misfortune.
People see that you are not pleased when they speak to you; in a social environment like this, you are doomed to misfortune, if you do not succeed in winning respect.
'One word more; it is my misfortune to have a hasty temper; it is possible that you and I may cease to speak to one another.
What a misfortune, if I had had to endure that insult a second time in a cafe!'The amusing conversation had scarcely been interrupted.
That is always a mistake, and a misfortune both for patron and for protege.
It was her misfortune to have more intelligence than MM. de Croisenois, de Caylus, de Luz, and the rest of her friends.
'What a misfortune for me that there is not a real Court like that of Catherine de' Medici or Louis XIII!
But in proportion as his reason returns, he feels the depth of his misfortune.
The critical observations which he had been making at the expense of his rivals prevented him, however, from taking his misfortune too seriously; he retained, to give support to his pride, the memory of what had occurred the night before last.
'You know very well that I am proud; it is the misfortune of my position, and indeed of my nature, I must admit; so Madame de Fervaques has stolen your heart from me ...Has she offered you all the sacrifices to which that fatal passion led me?'A grim silence was Julien's only answer.
His whole life had been merely a long preparation for misfortune, and he had certainly never forgotten what is reckoned the greatest misfortune of all.
If such a man as he, at a time, too, when misfortune ought to recall him sternly to a sense of duty, stoops to charlatanism, what is one to expect of the rest of the species?
"Well, yes, that's how it is," said K., and as Mrs. Grubach's behaviour indicated that the captain had said nothing he dared to add, "Do you really think, then, that I'd want to make an enemy of you for the sake of a girl we hardly know?""Yes, you're quite right, Mr. K.," said Mrs. Grubach, and then, to her misfortune, as soon as she felt just a little freer to speak, she added something rather inept.
It was my misfortune once to go for a water picnic with two ladies of this kind.
Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as possible.
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