ill-success

I returned to my house troubled by my ill-success; and my love for my wife and my affection moved me to undertake the journey.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

From day one, Frances was involved in the marriage and therefore a huge reason for it's ill-success.

Tart of the Week: Frances, Countess of Jersey Heather Carroll 2008

And now, tired of finding the ill-success of each particular enquiry, she thought a more general one might obtain an answer less laconic, and therefore begged she would inform her what was the most fashionable place of diversion for the present season?

Cecilia 2008

The Marquis and Lorenzo waited in vain till the break of day: They then retired without noise, alarmed at the failure of their plan, and ignorant of the cause of its ill-success.

The Monk 2004

Our chat would begin by his rallying me about my ill-success in Carolina, and I would respond by reminding him that success there was only a question of expense.

The Master of the World 2003

The truth was, that the ill-success of my inquiries had in no sense daunted me.

The Woman in White 2003

Lord Glenarvan had taken care that the ill-success of their expedition should not throw a gloom over the pleasure of meeting, his very first words being:

In Search of the Castaways 2003

He sought in this accusation the cause of that ill-success which had got so galling a hold on his mental peace: Amid the worry of a self-condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother.

Villette 2003

Meantime the heat had somewhat abated; but my ill-success, or, as they say among us, my

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

All this time, notwithstanding the domestic anxieties which were harassing them — notwithstanding the ill-success of their poems — the three sisters were trying that other literary venture, to which Charlotte made allusion in one of her letters to the Messrs. Aylott.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002