It seemed to me that I was not only unlucky but quite stupid as well.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

A popular program called " flash ", which sent malformed information via the talk protocol, was frequently used by pranksters to corrupt the terminal output of the unlucky target in the early 1990s.

Perhaps he was unlucky, but along with 30 other NCR managers ( including Patterson ) on February 22, 1912, he was indicted in an anti ‑ trust suit instigated by managers previously.

He was surrounded to the last by admiring friends ; and if it be true that, like so many Italians, he regarded Fridays as an unlucky day and thirteen as an unlucky number, it is remarkable that one Friday 13th of November he died.

This shocks Novalee about her unlucky number and races home to find out that Americus was kidnapped.

On Americus's 5th birthday, Novalee is paranoid about her party because of the unlucky 5 ( when Americus was 5 days old, she had jaundice ; at 5 weeks old, she had an ear infection ; at 5 months old, she was kidnapped ).

They find it, but all aboard are dead, the unlucky victims of a fast-moving meteor that punctured the ship when the armored outer airlock door was open.

Nicholas I was crowned on 14 December 1825, which fell on a Monday ; Russian superstition held that Mondays were unlucky days.

The number thirteen was thought to be unlucky.

In general petrels were considered to be " soul birds ", representing the souls of drowned sailors, and it was considered unlucky to touch them.

By this stage White appears to have formed the view that he was born under " an unlucky star ".

A game of tabula played by Eastern Roman Emperor | Byzantine Emperor Zeno ( emperor ) | Zeno in 480 and recorded by Agathias in 530 circa because of a very unlucky dice throw for Zeno, as he threw 2, 5 and 6 and was forced to leave eight pieces prone to capture.

The Siege of Roses lasted from 28 November 1794 until 3 February 1795, when the garrison was safely evacuated by a Spanish naval squadron, except for 300 unlucky soldiers.

In that tale Elffin was extremely unlucky.

Other related deities include the goddess of the sun, Saule, who ensured the fertility of the earth and was the guardian of the unlucky, especially for orphans and young shepherds.

The film was unlucky in its release ( its planned screening at Cannes was cancelled amid the political events of May 1968 ), and it was almost five years before Resnais was able to direct another film.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

He had no doubt the marine was the lead scout of a column, and while his shot had probably bred indecision, they would soon come hunting.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

His signal was for the other dogs to come running, but it was also the signal for Mama and the other maids to watch out.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.

`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

He knew now what he was up against.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.