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I also recall an unfortunate Laotian woman who scarified her back in an attempt to treat her menstrual problems.
He got hold of the property by the merest accident, and as soon as he did he began his work by attacking three unfortunate orphans on the estate.
Filling in a tax return can be quite daunting, and not just for bishops, if you are unfortunate enough to receive one.
Paul Wright was unfortunate that his downward header was saved brilliantly by McCulloch.
Those that shun or oppose this unfortunate but justified retaliation perhaps are blind to reality for some reason, and that in itself is sad.
It is unfortunate that most people are not in a position to come into contact, let alone sympathize, with radical musical ideas.
Peter congratulated him before asking which unfortunate soul had been dropped to make way for his young brother.
The unfortunate man was at the head, engaged in unshackling the maintopmast spring stay, when the cap of the foremast came off.
They were unfortunate that they got caught as the meat in the sandwich in that.
In her lifetime she noted that her work highlighted the unfortunate divide between autodidactic and certified professional therapy.
It is unfortunate that newspapers publicise the few negative incidents rather than the many positive ones.
The unfortunate part with the leaky homes situation is that the time bomb is ticking.
It was memorable, not for the car, but for the unfortunate timing of the event.
That unfortunate verbal tic doesn't invite confidence, but I would willingly defend the bulk of what Pilger has had to say in recent years.
Mohammed said it was an unfortunate and sad case, as Alexander met his death in an attempt to defend his sister's honour.
But keeping such ill feelings and distrusting the media as a whole is unfortunate.
For people who deal in commercial property this is an unfortunate fact of life.
And the manner of almost all those defeats was so cruelly unfortunate as to be beyond belief.
If a red-faced man can turn white as a sheet, then the unfortunate plumber had done so.
Immorality prevails as sympathy for the unfortunate diminishes into thin air.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Her coming there was the most unfortunate, the most ill-judged thing in the world!
The term astrology had none of the unfortunate or derisory signification that it has at the present time.
I continued the descent, and crossed the creek to where the unfortunate Tulp was waiting for me.
Captain sanglier here and Arrowhead, this brave Tuscarora, have both informed me that this unfortunate boy is the traitor.
But how barbarous that is, and how unfortunate for him, that the world shall think the better of any person for his calumniation!
Once or twice a vast roar of Homeric laughter went up as some unfortunate slipped and soused into the water.
Nevertheless, it appears to me unfortunate in Seeger's noble poem, where it forces me to taste its foreign flavour.
Or was he a practitioner of artificial insemination, with a rather unfortunate error to his credit?
He now receives but a 14-gun salute for his unfortunate turn at the durbar.
Dromas evaded both without guarding, and, in reply, gave the Thuler a smartish touch on his unfortunate nose.
The unfortunate troops of cardenas found no use for their cords, since, totally defeated, they fled in haste.
It may actually have been the unfortunate fall to which the Helot owed his death.
Then, bidding Eadgyth to attend her, she proceeded at once to the spital, to leech the unfortunate squire.
The unfortunate hebridean, appalled at the omen, betook herself to her bed, and was seized with a mortal illness.
By this means it was hoped that these unfortunate districts would soon be made like the English Pale.
By the by, stane, did you ever get to the bottom of that unfortunate affair of yours in England?
The unfortunate Boabdil plunged once more amidst the recesses of the Alhambra.
His career seems to have been ill-starred and unfortunate from the beginning.
It is unfortunate that this deliberate choice has eliminated such valuable illustrative material as the work of Kagawa in Japan.
Fitzroy told his lordship its story, and that of its unfortunate predecessors.
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