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This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs Israel and the Ill-fated Flotilla 9 people were killed and scores wounded when the Israeli Navy stormed the ...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup 2010
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“Ill-fated” was definitely a bad choice of words here and I apologize …
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Ill-fated curse of my father! the crimes of bloody kinsmen, ancestors of old, now pass their boundaries and tarry not, and upon me are they come all guiltless as I am; ah! why?
Hippolytus 2008
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Ill-fated curse of my father! the crimes of bloody kinsmen, ancestors of old, now pass their boundaries and tarry not, and upon me are they come all guiltless as I am; ah! why?
Hippolytus 2008
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Link, via MetaFilterMrs. Miriam Davis Colt's "Thrilling Account" of the "Ill-fated Expedition" includes a list of those who made the trip to Kansas to watch their dreams of a vegetarian utopia vanish.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Ill-fated paddlers were thrown out onto the rocks and more than a few had died as a result.
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Ill-fated paddlers were thrown out onto the rocks and more than a few had died as a result.
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Pao-yü was indescribably joyous, and, as he raised his head, he perceived that the text on the tablet consisted of the three characters: the Board of Ill-fated lives; and that on each side was
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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“Ill-fated” was the epithet applied by the press to the Anderson expedition to the Parima and upper Uraricoera region of Brazil.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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She smiled at the word-what did "Ill-fated?" mean?
The Savage Horde Ahern, Jerry 1983
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