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Examples
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It seemed her ill-luck had shot its bolt with the deaths of her first two.
SAMUEL 2010
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No one even told them, when I was born, that they gifted me with an ill-luck name.
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And I began cursing and sobbing - not for Willy, but out of shock and for the folly and ill-luck that had brought me to this slaughterhouse and had killed this brainless brat, this pathetic princeling who thought war was great sport, and had been entrusted to my safe-keeping.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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It was associated with bad harvests, barren marriages, tempestuous weather and ill-luck for monarchs.
Leap Year -- Day John 2008
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It's a matter between me and Colum-you had the ill-luck to be with me when the townsfolk came.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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After all, the island is steeped in stories of mermaids' curses and the ill-luck that they bring.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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By a stroke of ill-luck, that part of early childhood has eluded him, and maybe for ever; he has been tagged a witch.
Nigeria sees rise in number of children accussed of witchcraft 2008
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Let everyone see it for what it is, a friend helping a friend in need instead of a politician unscruplously using someones ill-luck to score political points.
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We plodded slowly past the short road that led to the gate, just a parry of travelers with the ill-luck to be abroad on such a miserable day.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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And all the ill-luck in the world over you and your hunting!
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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