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Examples
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In this hardluck economy, anybody could be a victim of a scam.
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In this hardluck economy, anybody could be a victim of a scam.
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Maybe on voting matters, there is a certain conservatism — even hillybilly quality — to the rural farm hamlets and the hardluck mill towns.
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To be fair, some of these pieces are among the best I've read by Boyle, especially the title story, about a hardluck man named Junior who somehow manages to win a cerval in a bar bet.
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The accident is the latest in a long list of heartbreaks for the hardluck Nikodinov.
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Katrina is heading to the northeast across Barataria Bay and Bastian Bay toward the hardluck towns of Port Sulphur and Buras.
Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007
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Katrina is heading to the northeast across Barataria Bay and Bastian Bay toward the hardluck towns of Port Sulphur and Buras.
Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007
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Your addition to the lore makes it such a hardluck. too bad.
Anna Nicole Smith, R. I. P. Bill Crider 2007
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I met Catherine at the hotel and heard her hardluck tale of bad hotel luck, involving lost reservations, smoking rooms, and bad rollaway beds.
Pennies from Heaven vuboq 2006
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The fellows that have got there kept their hardluck stories quiet, I bet.
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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