illluck

And there, by the most hellish illluck, before I'd got the ghee-smell in my nostrils or even thought about finding a woman; I ran slap into old General Sale, whom I hadn't seen since Afghanistan, and was the last man I wanted to meet just then.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Or a day-laborer be unavoidably lost because he had the illluck to be born in England? "

Voltaire 2007