“He attributes his success to hard work and dedication first, and luck is only secondary.”

“One day, he purchased a lottery ticket and by luck he won it.”

“But if it is combined with the talent or gift of luckiness, a sort of Napoleon of the gaming table is the result.”

“The first question of this scale asks people to indicate their perceived luckiness, the second their perceived unluckiness.”

“When a player loses his luckiness bankroll is debited by the sum of the bets multiplied by his probability of losing.”

“No such lucklessness has followed his immediate successor in the depiction of artists in Britain.”

“I could not tell if it was a sigh of relief or a sigh of lucklessness, but nevertheless he sighed.”

“And the decisive moments of an encounter that ought to prevent him enjoying days out in the Highlands this winter just summed up the lucklessness of the little man.”