| He had the hapless air of a noir patsy, and seemed forever hit by ill-fortune. |
| It may look on paper like a pronounced failure but this was, in truth, a campaign beset by ill-fortune. |
| But ill-fortune, and it must be confessed some unwisdom, marked his government. |
| I called Halper the other day, to tell him of my ill-fortune. |
| James sits in a corner of Manchester's velodrome cafe and charts the ill-fortune and worry which knocked her off course. |
| Now comes a larger and more comprehensive attempt to make head against our ill-fortune and end it. |
