| 单词 | ill-starred |
| 例句 | The ground was littered with the bodies of attackers who had fallen prey to the flames in the ill-starred venture of the siege tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Annette” is a musical about the ill-starred romance between two artists, a description that suggests obvious kinship with “La La Land” and “A Star is Born.” ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Its perfect pitch showed in “Original Cast Album: Co-Op,” a sendup of the ill-starred production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company,” complete with soundtrack album. Best TV Shows of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Creepiness is the nightmare version of seduction: it can crop up in an instant, in a gesture or an ill-starred turn of phrase, and yet it takes much longer to expunge from the imagination. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z His ill-starred reign was redeemed only by the “grace, patience, humour and dignity” which the doomed royal family showed in their captivity. Long they ruled 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Gilliam returns to the fray with his first film since 2009's ill-starred The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which had to be patched together following the death of its lead actor Heath Ledger. Venice film festival lineup sees Gilliam and Glazer back in from the cold 2013-07-25T10:47:59Z Dafoe, too, proves purely terrific as the brilliant, ill-starred man at the centre. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Ray Liotta, who frequently shows up in movies like this one, shows up as the guy who oversees the ill-starred poker game. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z I didn’t care for it — but I loved the rentable “Sideways,” the 2004 film directed by Alexander Payne about two friends’ ill-starred journeys in California wine country. Oh, My Aching Head: Movies for the Soused or Now Sober 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “What are the odds?” is a question that reverberates darkly throughout this play, as one calamity after another befalls its hapless, good-willed, ill-starred characters. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z Numbers have dropped after an ill-starred 2009 season in which four hikers died of suspected heart attacks and a further 13 people died in a plane crash en route to the trailhead. Explorer: In Papua New Guinea, Trek on a Trail of War 2010-10-22T19:48:00Z The action, much of it set round Rhode Island, hinges on an ill-starred blind date initiated by the newlywed Andrew and Suzanna. Review 2011-01-21T00:42:01Z And genius was something Amy Winehouse possessed in abundance; the ill-starred singer, some suggested, had more gifts than she knew how to use. A Bad Girl With a Touch of Genius 2011-07-27T21:06:38Z It is tempting to exaggerate the enduring fascination of the ill-starred English colony. ‘The Secret Token’ Review: America’s First Unsolved Mystery 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z He believes his ill-starred 13th feature will be his movie swan song. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Only a few weeks after his ill-starred attempt at armed robbery, Jimmy has been forced to start over again in Chicago, as roving backup for the intemperate Al Capone. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Unhappy surprises 2010-10-11T05:01:00Z Noting that he has starred in several dystopian movies, including the ill-starred “The Dark Tower,” I wonder if he thinks America is headed toward a racial dystopia under the stewardship of Donald Trump. Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba! Actor Opines on Sex, Race, Bond 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z There are portents aplenty packed into the hold of the ill-starred ship of the title in “The Last Voyage of the Demeter.” ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ review: An ill-fated, if easily predictable, final journey 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Apollo, Sixth Street and Warburg Pincus are reportedly among the bidders for GreenSky, the specialty lender that Goldman Sachs bought as part of its ill-starred foray into consumer finance. Markets Await a Fed Pause — but Not an End to Rate Increases 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z And he’s currently flexing his tragicomic muscles in “Welcome to Chippendales,” a Hulu limited series based on the surprisingly ill-starred history of the male strip revue that became a cultural sensation in the 1980s. Acting once left Murray Bartlett 'in pieces.' How he became Hollywood's go-to 'hunk' 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z The toxic legacy is so deep that it’s easy to forget the high purpose that created this ill-starred undertaking in the first place. A toast to the misunderstood temperance movement on the anniversary of its demise 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z George Caralambo had helped the Army wrangle camels in a comically ill-starred try at adapting camels to military uses. Griffith Park is named for a guy who shot his wife — and other true stories of L.A. parks 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “Diana: The Musical,” about the ill-starred royal marriage, is streaming ahead of its Broadway opening. Review: At South Coast Rep, 'A Shot Rang Out' proves to be an eloquent misfire 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z My own candidate is a “disaster” of black holes, since the word disaster is rooted in the Latin “astro” — star — and, later, the Italian term for “ill-starred.” What Do You Call a Bunch of Black Holes: A Crush? A Scream? 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z He would contribute more than $2.5 million to Trump’s campaign, his ill-starred foundation and his inaugural. Trump engineered a sudden windfall in 2016 as campaign funds dwindled 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The ill-starred purchases are in some ways a parable of the risks in the escalating scrum among competing governments racing for an edge in the fight against the pandemic. U.K. Paid $20 Million for New Coronavirus Tests. They Didn’t Work. 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z It’s unclear if the ill-starred Assembly bill can be reworked to fit that goal. 'Scarlet letter statute': L.A.’s adult performers strike back against state registry bill 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Song, story and spectacle often seem at cross-purposes in Van Hove’s revival, but they miraculously fuse through an orchestral lushness that brings Tony and Maria’s ill-starred romance to crushing emotional life. Review: 'West Side Story' blasts back to Broadway — kinetic, bloody and modern to the core 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Obama’s attempt to end the war in Afghanistan was similarly ill-starred. Opinion | Trump hasn’t ended the ‘endless wars.’ Neither will Democrats. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Harris’s ill-starred presidential campaign did not enhance her standing back home. Kamala Harris quit the presidential race just in time. Here's what it means for her future 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z This provided the rationale for the ill-starred American intervention of 1992, Operation Restore Hope. Column: The truth about Somalia shows the absurdity of Trump's attack on Yovanovitch 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Or I was trapped in the ice three winters running with dwindling supplies after my ill-starred decision to continue north in search of the Passage. Opinion | It’s me, the one person waiting for the anonymous Trump book before changing my mind 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Not far away is the site of the ill-starred U.S. Benghazi residents struggle to rebuild despite Libya divisions 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z It was Goldstone who set up an ill-starred meeting between Donald Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer in June 2016, promising information that could “incriminate” Trump’s election rival, Hillary Clinton. Rob Goldstone on Trump: 'I think he likes Russia because Russia liked him' 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Slatten’s retrial reflects the latest twist in prosecutors’ dogged but ill-starred prosecution, a pursuit marred by the government’s own missteps. Blackwater guard’s retrial on murder charge in 2007 Iraq massacre goes to U.S. jury 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Inevitably, Hollywood came calling and in 1995 released an ill-starred film adaptation. Jamie Hewlett and the aesthetics of pop culture 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Impressed by his fellow birther, Trump appointed Kobach vice chairman of an ill-starred commission on supposed voter fraud; it fizzled like a wet matchstick. Opinion | America’s No. 1 voter fraud conspiracy theorist goes down in court 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “Hostiles” wears its good intentions on its well-weathered cavalry-blue sleeve as it tracks an ill-starred odyssey of a handful of horse soldiers escorting a captive Cheyenne family across the American West of 1892. ‘Hostiles’: A journey filled with guilt and regrets across the American West 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Indeed, this may not be the final chapter on these ill-starred reactors. Georgia editorial roundup 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Seemingly, it costs more to tell the story of an ill-starred luxury liner than it did to build it in the first place. Does The Crown cost more than the Queen? 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Yet little is known about his business past, aside from an ill-starred investment in South Carolina. Why Being Donald Trump Jr., the Businessman, Won’t Be Easy 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Robinson would remember the ill-starred pitcher as among the handful of players he was most fond of, and, in 1972, Mr. Branca was one of Robinson’s pallbearers. Ralph Branca, pitcher who gave up historic home run, dies at 90 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It tracks an ill-starred odyssey of a handful of horse soldiers escorting a captive Cheyenne family across the American West of 1892 from New Mexico to the family’s ancestral home in Montana. ‘Hostiles’: A journey filled with guilt and regrets across the American West 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Few stories capture the hearts of people all over the world as reliably as one about ill-starred lovers. Mark Morris dancers, Silk Road Ensemble join in classic love story 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Arsène Wenger is one of a handful of managers with the “perfect” criteria to become the next England manager in the wake of Sam Allardyce’s ill-starred tenure, according to the Football Association chief executive. Arsène Wenger has ‘perfect criteria’ for England, says FA chief executive 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Now here was another blow, another reason to feel ill-starred. Sloppy USGA shouldn’t escape the mess it created 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Last year she was named a state leader for Virginia for the Texas senator Ted Cruz’s ill-starred presidential campaign. Texas board of education vote is critical for conservatives – and US schools 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z ATHENS—Six years to the week after Greece’s ill-starred bailout began, the government and its creditors are stuck at an impasse that threatens to push the country to the brink of default again. A Push for Greek Cuts Even Creditors Think Go Too Far 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z For now a better place to start might be the slimming down or junking of that ill-starred committee, an accident of the Rodgers era that has turned out to be its most confusing legacy. Liverpool transfer jumble has left Jürgen Klopp in charge of a footballing camel 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z At which ill-starred juncture, the price of imports would shoot up and inflation would rise, forcing the Bank of England to raise interest rates more than would be comfortable in our heavily indebted economy. Stalled march of the makers - BBC News 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z In Stockton, it encompassed ill-advised investments in downtown amenities, as well as a costly pension debt refinancing into which the city was snookered by the ill-starred investment firm Lehman Bros. Count the bad ideas in California pension overhaul proposal 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z For the U.S., it was an ignominious end to a bitter, ill-starred war. From the Archives: The End in Vietnam 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Under Meg Whitman, HP has stabilized, especially as it has come back from a number of ill-starred decisions like the disastrous acquisition of the corporate software provider Autonomy. Aging Tech Giants Look to Deals to Help Bolster Revenue 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z But they did do something for those ill-starred children. "796 Babies In A Septic Tank": Does An Anti-Catholic Agenda Explain This Hoax? 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z That competition was equally ill-starred and the nomadic Monarchs were dethroned in 1998. Is Britain the NFL's 51st state? 2013-10-26T22:07:54Z Unfortunately, the ill-starred Arab Awakening is fueling more anger and frustration in the Islamic world, converting more people to jihad. The Coming of Al Qaeda 3.0 2013-08-06T16:52:00Z A Spock-like economic wonk used to the civilized stone halls of the New York Federal Reserve bank, Geithner was dragged in 2009 into one of the most ill-starred tenures of any modern US treasury Secretary. Will Jacob Lew take on financial reform? Don't hold your breath 2013-01-10T21:45:04Z Early in Bill Bryson’s book A Walk in the Woods, the story of his ill-starred Appalachian Trail expedition, the author’s out-of-shape and impulsive hiking companion, Katz, decides his backpack is too heavy. The Fiscal Cliff Isn't the Problem 2012-12-06T22:00:57Z Lest you think that the whole notion of parallel universes was ill-starred to begin with, cosmologists have good cause to think our universe is just one member of a big dysfunctional family. How Do You Count Parallel Universes? You Can't Just Go 1, 2, 3, ... 2012-08-06T22:15:04.737Z Of the passing of time they had but a remote idea, since the sub had wisely left his watch ashore before proceeding on the ill-starred trip in the Fidelity. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Such was this ill-starred expedition to the Major. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z The Steptoe expedition was the most ill-starred event in the whole history of the North-west, unless we except that of the destruction of the Tonquin. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z When they returned, they found the ill-starred Donogh lying almost dead on the floor, with two black eyes far surpassing in beauty and magnitude those received on the preceding evening by his brother. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Until their ill-starred attempt to escape from France in June, 1792, there remained some little respect for the king, and some tenderness for his children. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z No wonder that Jack felt like kicking himself for having embarked upon the ill-starred voyage in the smack Fidelity. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Again and again they are baulked in their efforts to reach the ill-starred vessel. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z His younger sister, Leonora, will ever be remembered as the beloved one of the great epic poet of Italy—the ill-starred Torquato Tasso. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Designing to accompany this with some of the flowers she now remembered, for the first time since her return from her ill-starred morning excursion, Belle hastily re-arranged the prettiest of them in a little bouquet. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z That ill-starred lady had, as she knew, been imprisoned in La Force; and it was with a thrill that chilled her blood that she perused the details of her murder. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Thus, then, an ill-starred jest was the wreck of my every hope and joy. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z An ill-starred past: one that had left its bane on his after life, and whose consequences had clung to him. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z This power has, in our day, been restored to Hell; and in this inverse direction, the ill-starred, perverted pilgrims are travelling to a Shrine where no deliverance awaits them, or can reach them any more. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Hence the cant phrases, "My stars," "He is ill-starred," etc., in use then, and still in use at the present day. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z No man would willingly be thought so very unskilful, as that ill-starred Palinurus, who made the shores of Norway, on a voyage to the coast of Africa. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Then she remembered Raimundo's greeting and that ill-starred look backwards, with a feeling of shame to which her cheeks bore witness by a deepening colour. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The house is relieved of the presence of the ill-starred widow, a certain source of misfortune, and her removal is a blessing for which the gods are thanked. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z The writer rushes off to the Riviera only to find his friend dead, and to receive from his mother the ill-starred panel. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z This ill-starred production may almost be said to have done more to excite the resentment of posterity against Greene’s name than all the errors for which he professed his repentance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z His ill-starred partner was not long left in doubt. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z I have never dreamt of going to the fatal valley again; nothing on earth would tempt me after that ill-starred journey, heavy with the fate of Klaas and the Bechuana boy, Amazi. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Must I smother the ill-starred fruit of my womb? The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z A fourth member of the complement of the ill-starred unterseeboot swimming listlessly and aimlessly. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z But I," said Miller, who for some time had looked on the count with dislike as the instigator of the ill-starred undertaking, "shall have the silver sent to the cloister. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z After a few ill-starred risings, the life seemed to be crushed out of us, the last gleam of hope had faded. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z As we drove through it on the ill-starred day of our arrival, I had noticed some Stores, which I now thought would be likely to contain the article I required. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z He was in the camp of Braddock at Frederick, Maryland, just before that rash and ill-starred general set out upon his long, dolorous march through the wilderness where disaster and death awaited him. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z The midshipman had been sent to rescue his own boat's party—the survivors of the ill-starred whaler that had been cast ashore in Yenikeui Bay. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z That first "good day" in Taurogi was wonderful, when the two friends saw each other after the ill-starred campaign. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z It forms the elemental background which rounds the little lives of the ill-starred family group nurtured on its banks. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z But the ill-starred attempt resulted only in his leaving forty convicts to their fate on Sable island, off the coast of Nova Scotia. History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 With a Sketch of his Life 2011-07-12T02:00:34.217Z Undaunted by critics, she campaigned for ratification of the ill-starred Equal Rights Amendment, championed liberalized abortion laws and lobbied her husband to name more women to policymaking government jobs. Betty Ford dies at 93: Former first lady founded iconic clinic 2011-07-09T02:40:00Z The Canopus, which had been expected to join Admiral Cradock's ill-starred squadron in the Pacific, and had last been heard of in the Falkland Islands fight, suddenly turned up in the �gean. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z After Raleigh's ill-starred venture it had received little attention until 1629, when Sir Robert Heath obtained a patent to lands between 31° and 36° north latitude, but he did nothing to improve the territory. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z An ill-starred impulse had led him to resign his latest stock connection in order to adventure in vaudeville with a one-act sketch written to his order by a hack manufacturer of such trash. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z If this sheet should ever reach thee, then lament thy ill-starred friend. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z His career seems to have been ill-starred and unfortunate from the beginning. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z But the ill-starred captain went down in a Biscay gale when also within sight of home, and with him went his whole life's savings, leaving his Margaret fatherless, homeless and fortuneless. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Around the kettle danced three terrifying figures who might easily have been identified as the weird sisters who appeared to the ill-starred Macbeth. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z I am also grateful to Dr. Gary Puckrein, author of Little England, for his insights concerning the role slavery played in Barbados' ill-starred attempt at independence. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z So says the ill-starred poet, who discovers to his cost 162 that it is just this inexhaustible merriment that lends a sharp edge to maiden cruelty. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Henceforth Jefferies abandons his ill-starred attempts to paint manners which he never saw, a society to which he never belonged, and the life of people concerning whom he knew nothing. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z To the ill-starred Burns was given the power of making man’s life more venerable, but that of wisely guiding his own was not given. Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z "I am afraid the complications will not end even if Heaven rid us of the Baron, for his brother at the Abbey is fully conversant with my father's ill-starred confidence." The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z And somewhere else, not far from the house, is the place where Orion Clemens, Sam's elder brother, ran the ill-starred newspaper on which Sam worked, setting type and doing his first writing. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z It was the same set of “furnished apartments,” containing that cane chair with which he had struck his ill-starred wife. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z So once I saw Mycenae, the ill-starred, a barren height Too bleak for goats to pasture,—the goat-herds point the site. Love, Worship and Death Some Renderings from the Greek Anthology 2011-04-21T02:00:45.290Z Blinded by his ill-starred idolatry, he had abandoned even the dignity of concealing it; and followed his ignis fatuus about—constantly forcing his company upon her in a manner that rendered him ridiculous. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z The day appointed for Alice's ill-starred nuptials draws near with ill-omened celerity. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Inside the ExCel centre in east London the BP board faced a barrage of hostile questions about its "green" credentials, pay, and ill-starred bid to do a deal with Russia's Rosneft. BP meeting sparks angry protests 2011-04-14T17:49:59Z "God grant," she said fervently, "that France may not be too late in doing her duty by that ill-starred prince." Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Early in 1852 Lever heard of the tragic fate of his friend Eliot Warburton, who had perished in the Amazon, the ill-starred steamer which was burned on her voyage to the west coast of America. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Southern Cross's problems stem from its ownership by US private equity firm Blackstone, which sold nursing home freeholds to raise funds to fuel an ill-starred acquisition binge after 2004. Southern Cross ? a sorry tale of recklessness and regulatory failure 2011-04-12T19:37:42Z During England's ill-starred World Cup campaign in South Africa, Rooney also swore at a television camera as he left the field following a disappointing goalless draw with Algeria. Rooney facing two-game ban for abuse 2011-04-04T22:55:31Z And while the scars on Hodgson's reputation as a result of his ill-starred stay at Anfield will take time to heal, he was afforded a great reception from Albion fans at the final whistle. West Brom 2-1 Liverpool 2011-04-02T16:00:44Z He had not much fear, that he would ever be called upon to carry matters to such an ill-starred extreme. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The cruel tragedy is repeated, showing now what was not known before, that both the ill-starred couriers had been taken alive. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z The car made only two more ill-starred appearances. F1 2011: Four cars that made the rule-makers think again 2011-03-21T12:00:09Z As you know, we undertook the ill-starred expedition to Gallipoli in order to open up communication between the Western Allies and Russia. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z From the mess-deck the "watch below," already roused by the impact of the destroyer with the ill-starred U-boat, came tumbling out, forming up in orderly silence to await further commands. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z The interview had ended; ill-starred he might deem it: since the conduct of Marion remained inexplicable as ever. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z All the sophistry in the world could not veil the sin he had committed against the helpless, unoffending infant, the melancholy legacy of his ill-starred Mary. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Why had it pleased fate to project this ill-starred creature, one altogether outside the circle of my interests, one alien in birth, in race, in fortune, into the quiet backwater of my years! Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z One of the four survivors of the ill-starred expedition of De Narvaez in 1527 was the Negro Estevanico, to whom belongs the credit of the discovery of the Zuñi Indians and of New Mexico. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z I have named my place the Wilderness Lodge, thinking how the ill-starred Byron would have joyed in just such a spot. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Never again would she be cross or hasty with this ill-starred heroine. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Signals were now distinctly heard from the heights, and soldiers were gathered on the cliffs watching the ill-starred convict-ship. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z In that vivid atom of mortality were reproduced many of the characteristics of the ill-starred "circus rider from Vienna." Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z One day during her confinement she narrated the incidents of her incarceration in a letter destined for Bridget, but which never reached the ill-starred mother, due to a series of distressful circumstances. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z So have I seen an ill-starred woman fall a prey to unseasonable mirth at a wedding. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z At the moment, the E.U. remains committed to the ill-starred Galileo, which may one day deliver all that it promises. Galileo: Europe's Troubled Satellite Scheme is Lost in Space 2011-01-26T18:10:00Z "Yes," interposed Gibbon, "the ill-starred lady has translated Epictetus!" Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Suffice to say that not even Wayne Bridge's debut on Saturday was as ill-starred and shambolic as the botched attempt, if that is what it really was, to replace Grant with O'Neill. West Ham United's treatment of Avram Grant is a farce: what a carry-on 2011-01-19T14:59:50Z The revelation, bearing as it did the stamp of irresistible candor, awakened in the heart of Franz of Gerolstein a deep interest for the ill-starred young woman. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Next year, for the first time, there will be a race in Delhi, venue of the current and ill-starred Commonwealth Games. Yeongam gets green light for Korean GP 2010-10-12T16:50:00Z Each may wonder how big a risk it is to take the field for England in this ill-starred period. Terry becomes England's latest casualty 2010-10-10T21:39:00Z Nike's ill-starred campaign is not the only one to have carried something of a curse. World Cup special: part six ? Is the Nike TV advert cursed? 2010-06-29T23:11:00Z It was not to last though and before long he cut the same frustrated, disconsolate presence that has become familiar throughout this ill-starred tournament. World Cup 2010: How England's players rated against Germany 2010-06-27T20:45:00Z I shall say not another word upon that ill-starred passion. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The loss of their captain, Steve Borthwick, with knee trouble yesterday summed up Martin Johnson's ill-starred campaign and has presented Lewis Moody, the stand-in skipper, with an unenviable pass straight from the infirmerie. England's 'Mad Dog' Lewis Moody leads assault on French grand slam hopes 2010-03-20T09:00:00Z In the ill-starred “Bishops’ War,” Astley did good service to the cause of the king, and he was involved in the so-called “Army Plot.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" I can only sing the woe, Which, ill-starred, I undergo. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches But, when your eye peruses these pages, there will be nothing to fear from the power of my ill-starred fate. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 When I returned from that ill-starred Russian voyage, I flew at once to join you. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec Again and again was the ill-starred ship thus swept by the billows, each time fresh victims falling to their fell fury. The Wreckers of Sable Island Tell me frankly, can you obtain repossession of this unlucky document which, in an ill-starred moment, you parted with? Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) The shattering of his ill-starred love idyll might be borne manfully, as an adequate punishment for his iniquity, and when time had healed his wound he might even rejoice in his expiation. A Traitor's Wooing Her own ill-starred destiny too, marked by every possible sign and presage, as full of darkness and sorrow—the thought was almost overwhelming. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 Now it is a steamship, say the ill-starred Leona, that comes up the bay with a cargo of cotton burning between decks. Careers of Danger and Daring Round about lie the bodies of the ill-starred beings who succumbed to the torture of blinding. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Absorbed in the thoughts that the fate of the ill-starred Thetralde had started in his mind, Vortigern remained mute and melancholy. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century The latter saw that he had no more than a thousand effective troops under his control, and decided to withdraw the ill-starred expedition. The Greater Republic A History of the United States As the hulk of the "Oriole" would be dangerous to navigation, she was towed within the Delaware Breakwater and delivered to the proper authorities, and the passengers and crew of the ill-starred schooner went ashore. The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers Had I never been engaged in that ill-starred case, my prospects in life had been reasonably fair and hopeful. One Of Them But the elements conspired against this ill-starred expedition. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 But why must it be that on this ill-starred globe of land and water, all should perish and die and the fairest things be ever the most fleeting? Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels The vessel which won fame for itself by this ill-starred action, was sailing under letters of marque from the Prince of Orange and had been scouring the seas in search of Spanish prizes. The Planters of Colonial Virginia But so it was; my ill-starred beast never seemed to have put forth her full powers till she was followed. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands The Duke of Bedford, when the ill-starred Jeanne fell into his hands, took away her life in order to stigmatize her memory with sorcery, and to destroy the reputation she had acquired among the French.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare How Max left the Princess Ottilie in the park after his ill-starred interview with her and rode away has already been told. Long Live the King "We shall want you soon to interpret for us in London; if, pardieu, we can ever find our way through the fogs of that ill-starred island." Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I Without it, however she may inspire admiration abroad, she will never excite esteem, nor of coarse, durable affection, at home, and will bring neither credit nor comfort to her ill-starred partner. Coelebs In Search of a Wife To this fatal spot, each eye was turned at day-break, to see if some ill-starred vessel had not struck during the night. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands The mother discovers his identity, and discloses it to him in order to prevent the ill-starred marriage. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 So she turned, and Lappy turned, as thousands of their ill-starred kind had turned before them for generations, to the wild gangs of the sewers. Conquest Over Time I then feel even as if the crimes I commit as the blind instrument of my ill-starred Destiny may be charged upon my immortal soul, which has no share in them. Weird Tales, Vol. II. Its sluggish stream was fed by every ill-starred love. Old-Time Stories Upon an enormous gallows, erected on the lines near Charleston, twenty-two of the black martyrs to freedom were executed on the 22nd day of the same ill-starred month. Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 7 I was now thoroughly ashamed of my first unjust suspicions that Henrietta might not be strictly truthful, and I inquired with sincere interest as to the fate of her ill-starred family. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself The love of parents for their children is, of all natural affections, the most ill-starred. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Even the literature of the eighteenth century was ill-starred by the partisan strife between the Saxons and the Swiss, a strife which had its origin more particularly in irreconcilable differences of language. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Michael had not reflected on the comparative freedom of his own life, contrasted with the monotonous lot of this ill-starred young man; if, indeed, we may safely accept Micky's description of it as accurate. When Ghost Meets Ghost He has fully entered into all the absurdity of Warburton’s “ill-starred Dissertation on Job.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors At Bickling, in the same county, was born that ill-starred Anne Boleyn, of whom it is written that ‘Love could teach a monarch to be wise, And Gospel light first beamed from Boleyn’s eyes.’ East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations The carnival of blood, which had been so successfully ushered in on that ill-starred Sunday of August, was maintained on the succeeding days with little abatement of its frenzied excitement. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 Upright in his chariot still stood the ill-starred hero. Eighth Reader One was the ill-starred lady who perished in the Konak in Belgrade. The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War And, Malone told himself, he had never possessed less hap in all of his ill-starred life. Occasion for Disaster The naval project, however, was so feeble and uncertain, so ill-starred, that adverse winds on the Atlantic brought it to an untimely end. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France The Royal Family made their ill-starred flight to Varennes; to be brought back to Paris as prisoners. Vigée Le Brun What of Theodosia Alston, loyal and lofty soul, blameless wife, devoted and pathetic adherent to the fallen fortunes of her ill-starred father? The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman You reproach these ill-starred women, because they are addicted to superstitious practices. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It He was cursed––cursed with an ill-starred fortune. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country Men were still struggling for victory over some one else, and beneath the veneer of a growing civilization, passions, just as untamed, raged and worked their will upon their ill-starred possessors. The Law-Breakers It told of battles to come and conflicts which would level to the dust the descendants of the conquerors of that ill-starred country. The Strollers It was considered a very unlucky day in Spain and Italy; it is still deemed an ill-starred day among the Buddhists and Brahmins. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose But there came upon me then a compassion for these innocent passengers, fated to have embarked upon this ill-starred voyage. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 The Budget Committee of the Reichstag, unequivocally and by a unanimous vote, indorsed the initiation of the ill-starred project as being within the legitimate scope of military precautions. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources Farther east, the ill-starred Dardanelles venture was coming to a disastrous end. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War This was his rendezvous on the night before his ill-starred expedition descended upon the State of Virginia and the South, in an insane effort to free the slaves. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 But to turn to the more pleasing side, great has been the good fortune of the land of freedom on this ill-starred day. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose Oh, thou ill-starred midnight ranger! dark, forlorn, mysterious stranger! Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 He was recalled to France by a revolt of the recently conquered Saxons, and the "Battle of Roncesvalles" is the historic monument of the ill-starred attempt. A Short History of Spain As, however, the French military contingent in the ill-starred Gallipoli adventure was but a small affair, the appointment of General Sarrail to the command thereof could only be regarded as the reverse of a promotion. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War All that now remains of this ill-starred enterprise is a few half-decayed palm-tree posts symmetrically planted in the ground on the site of the unfortunate colony of New Bordeaux. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 He still directed his footsteps in a westerly direction, carefully avoiding an approach to the sea, lest his troops should rise in mutiny, send for the ships, and escape from the ill-starred enterprise. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots This ill-starred visit, with its momentous sequel, has been described in my "History of Greece." Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History He knew the place; for by nearly starving there, years before, with the others of Governor la Barre’s ill-starred expedition, he had contributed to giving the spot a name. The Road to Frontenac It was owing to Lingua Four being president of the Committee for Undernourished Arborians that Probos Five was making this ill-starred trip. Solar Stiff Yet this was only the first of the many mishaps which befell the ill-starred Ulysses. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The ill-starred shrewdness of Scotland Yard, by detecting a mere date in that something, had quite thrown it out of gear as an item of evidence. Somehow Good The words of this ill-starred maiden—attainted with that sibylline cunning peculiar to her race—had filled my heart with most dire forebodings. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness They saw before them the “gig” of the slaver; and, standing “midships” in the boat,—just half-way between stem and stern,—they saw the captain of that ill-starred, ill-fated vessel! The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea The German minstrel sings of love's sweetness and pain, of summer and its delights, of winter and its woes, now of joy and happiness, again of ill-starred fortunes. Jewish Literature and Other Essays It was an ill-starred and unfortunate voyage for the three Polos and their precious charge, although all escaped with their lives and treasure. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History They had only just avoided cutting short the life of an ill-starred pedestrian who was in the act of crossing diagonally to a small cafe. Juggernaut The matrimonial settlement of their only and ill-starred daughter was the occasion of an outbreak on the part of husband and wife, that not only furnished diversion for courtiers but agitated the council table. A Book About Lawyers The sole hope of their redress lay in Michizane; but instead of supporting that ill-starred statesman, Miyoshi had contributed to his downfall. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era It is known that Raleigh crossed the Atlantic for a second time on board one of the ships of Gilbert's ill-starred expedition to the St. Lawrence in the winter of 1578. Raleigh But before President Johnson started on his ill-starred journey, arrangements had been made for the other national conventions. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. During the year 1843 the air was full of conspiracies, and various ill-starred attempts at rising against the Italian despots were made. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" The world recognised a less important agency in the ill-starred union. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life The news of Eckm�hl had destroyed his chances of success, and he was soon to end his gallant but ill-starred career in a final stand at Stralsund, whither he had retreated. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) Her chief prop, the centre and interposer of her intrigues, was Lord Goring, our ambassador at the French Court; who, like his ill-starred master, and more especially his royal mistress, belonged to the Spanish party. Political Women, Vol. 1 There in lonely solitude did I languish; and at intervals I heard through the thick walls, from the adjoining keep, the dismal, despairing accents of my ill-starred fellow countryman bewailingly uplifted. Fibble, D.D. The ebb-tide bears every sign of wreckage far out into the deeps of the Atlantic, and not a trace remains of the ill-starred vessel or her crew. Great Pirate Stories I have heard an ill-starred gambler bemoaning his losses with the cries of a stricken animal, and they are still more offensive as winners. Pan-Islam Captain Walker did not long grieve over the loss of his letter-of-credit, left on board the ill-starred Fleuron, for he was exchanged, after a few weeks, and was sent back to England with his crew. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure As she had protested in terms of horror against the conspiracy that had failed, her two young, imprudent, and ill-starred accomplices, Cinq Mars and De Thou, mounted the scaffold without breathing her name. Political Women, Vol. 1 This poor girl, the mother, bore her own name, and she could not harden her heart entirely against the ill-starred couple, and why should she! Ringfield A Novel I have neither space nor heart to attempt a history of our brilliant but ill-starred campaign. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 But this was a slight misfortune compared with that which the folly and presumption of one man was preparing for that ill-starred host. The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. "Dead as mutton," reported Wilmshurst, after bringing his glasses to bear upon the ill-starred Hun. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force And Vanheimert clung to the hope of a reprieve with all the sanguine tenacity of his ill-starred class, though it did seem with more encouragement on the whole. Stingaree What he thought on the subject of Yakoob Khan is fully set forth in the following memorandum drawn up as a note to my biography of that interesting and ill-starred prince in "Central Asian Portraits." The Life of Gordon, Volume II The short and ill-starred reign of Saul, the first king of the Jews, chosen when the people had wearied of the theocratic style of government, came to a speedy end. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History De Soto directed his footsteps in a westerly direction, carefully avoiding an approach to the sea, lest his troops should rise in mutiny, send for the ships, and escape from the ill-starred enterprise. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 No! it shows naught92 save the ill-starred madness of an embittered spirit and the pitiable fury of cantankerous old age. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura The desperate situation in which the Highlanders were placed may also be pictured from descriptions given by two more of their ill-starred number. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Here was evidence of the equanimity with which he faced disaster and which marked him on that ill-starred day when he was plunged to his death in the Irish Sea. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Of the Academic Board in general, of his instructors in large measure, but of the four or five ill-starred soldiers known as "tactical officers" in particular, Mr. McKay entertained very decided and most unflattering opinions. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier This ill-starred people played a most important part in the economic development of Europe, but they were terribly maltreated by the Christians, who held them guilty of the supreme crime of putting Christ to death. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe The flames spread through the combustible material which had been stored on the deck; and they were compelled to abandon the ill-starred steamer with the utmost precipitation, in order to save their own lives. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer Ah, my ill-starred blade!" he cried; "no longer may I be thy guardian. With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds The treasures of art which mock the nakedness of this ill-starred country were to him what they are ever to the mind of the artist,—they revealed a new world. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Hence the Jameson Raid, which was an ill-starred protest against the narrow, copper-riveted Boer rule, and later the final and sanguinary show-down in the Boer War, which ended the dream of Boer independence. An African Adventure But the ill-starred relics were not destined even yet to remain undisturbed. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 While these scenes are passing upon the ocean, others of equally exciting character occur upon that desert isle, where, by ill-starred chance for themselves, the pirate crew of the Condor made landing. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Yes, fair lady, I have the misfortune to bear that ill-starred title, and I beg you to be seated and open out your business.' Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century So saying, with a gentle cuff he handed the ill-starred Master Bramble out again to his fellows, and from that time there was scarcely a sound audible from the passage. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story The Corsican expedition was quite as ill-starred as the French. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) "My ill-starred novel—my story of Aberdeen Hall," she laughed. Mary Ware's Promised Land Disaster, ill-starred, and such adjectives as jovial, mercurial, are reminiscent of astrology. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Meanwhile, the ill-starred victims who were the subject of these deliberations were, happily for themselves, still ignorant of the horrid fate with which they were threatened. Ran Away to Sea And here, as though the immediate displeasures of this ill-starred day were insufficient, memory arose and recalled other displeasures of long ago. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance When the ill-starred Sardinian expedition reached Toulon, the blame of failure was laid by the Jacobins on Paoli's shoulders. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) What more shall we say of the ill-starred lady? The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio But as yet they are not; silence having been enjoined on the youths who accompanied him in that ill-starred expedition, which they, for their own sakes, have hitherto been careful to keep. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco An awful alternative it was, and for a long while the ill-starred victims seemed to linger in their choice. Ran Away to Sea I know not who you are, or how you come to be on board this most ill-starred ship. The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast Besides, he was never in the slightest degree responsible for the terrible waste of millions in this ill-starred maritime enterprise; all his own plans had been for the conduct of the war by land. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Such a course would have prevented him from making his ill-starred attempt to set up a Mexican Empire by the force of French arms on the ruins of a subjugated Mexican Republic. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV Such was the intelligence that saluted the ill-starred Mary and her husband on their return to England! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. It would only prove that some ill-starred individual—traveller, trapper, or hunter of wild horses—has been struck down by Comanches; afterwards beheaded, and scalped. The Death Shot A Story Retold He was seen going into a church on a certain ill-starred night.' Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Unluckily, their beds were so thickly bestrewn with rock that neither of them was navigable for any considerable part of its long course through the ill-starred province. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot Rousseau’s fiction of the Sovereignty of the People was an arbitrary and intrinsically sterile rendering of the real truth in Helvétius’s ill-starred book. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. No woman was ever more lonely or loveless than the ill-starred and ill-favoured Queen Mary. The Reign of Mary Tudor With spirit Queen Jehane turned to meet them, and you saw that she was of royal blood, for the pride of ill-starred emperors blazed and informed her body as light occupies a lantern. Chivalry And, Malone told himself, he had never had less help in all of his ill-starred life. Supermind Under such auspices the ill-starred periodicals naturally oscillate between insipid propriety and labored coarseness. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 To Mackenzie, more than to any other person, or to all other persons combined, are to be attributed all the worst consequences which flowed from that feebly-planned and ill-starred movement. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion Much they questioned and conjectured whence these ill-starred wanderers had come to lay their bones on so uncharitable a soil, and whether they had perished in seeking, like themselves, for the Earthly Paradise. A Child's Book of Saints Possibly Brian was the only one who thoroughly enjoyed himself at that ill-starred dinner, for he is keen on the scent of a precarious situation which is liable to involve everybody in total collapse. The Love Affairs of an Old Maid —Mrs. Lisle flung herself out of the room, to vent her bad humor upon whatever ill-starred persons should cross her path. Hubert's Wife A Story for You It was she who had brought about the ill-starred union. The Daughters of Danaus I say that during the years of this ill-starred experiment you have fought valiantly to make him win. The Tyranny of Weakness Gladstone assented, and Gordon started that evening on his ill-starred errand. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography The river they named differently, but it has since borne the title of that ill-starred colony. French Pathfinders in North America The ill-starred news had reach the shrine Where sat mid birds and flowers, His new-born bride. Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst Under such high auspices, and with such a general consent of men's minds in his favor, did the celebrated, the rash, the lamented Essex commence his brief and ill-starred course! Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Arthur Lee also poured the destructive torrent of his malignant wrath over the ill-starred Williams. Benjamin Franklin It was not till they were fully half a mile from the ill-starred spot that the Owl opened his beak to murmur, with an air of long-suffering melancholy but scientific delight, the word— 'Reaction!' 'That Very Mab' “What ill-starred luck we have, to be sure!” The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" It assembled one month after the Presidential election, and fifteen days before the Disunionists of South Carolina met in their ill-starred convention. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Take that, for being howling young cads, both of you!” and he knocked their two ill-starred heads together with a vigour which made the epithet “howling” painfully accurate. The Willoughby Captains His mind swerved on the points here, and branched off into the recollection of that ill-starred dinner at the Shades, and the unhealthy bloated face of the cad Pillans. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life The rest of the ill-conditioned lot saw in the affair only a good opportunity of crowing over their ill-starred adversary, and telling me it served me right for chumming up to such a one. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life The best of the time was worn by the impetuous and ill-starred Essex, to signify his grief on one of the occasions when he had lost the queen's favour. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 The order was then given to weigh anchor, and half-an-hour later the Zebra was standing out to sea on as ill-starred a voyage as vessel ever made. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 And the enemy, if truth must be told, needed very little persuasion, especially as the crew in question consisted of Cusack, Pilbury, and the three other ill-starred victim of the raid of two days ago. The Willoughby Captains A few poor people from the little knot of hovels, which was called the village, alone greeted the ill-starred adventurer. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. We must trust to other sources to enable us to form a due estimate of the merits of this ill-starred Prince. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. This ill-starred union was the cause of an Iliad of woes. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 How I execrated that ill-starred jade, and the Dutch skiver, but for whom I might at this moment have been my own master. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 What a prospect for the ill-starred Protestant, who will be lucky if he is admitted into purgatory at all! Short Studies on Great Subjects If he had been endowed with second sight, he would have thought at least as rude a presage due to this last and most ill-starred of a whole generation of neophytes. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre But the satisfaction of the clans was dashed by hearing that the ill-starred little laird was fair, like his sisters. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Certainly it was very good; and I was soon relieved to find that the disgust my dream had given me for Punch's onslaughts on his ill-starred visitors was only transient. A Thin Ghost and Others That was not for me; I was denied youth's sovereign balm for ill-starred hopes and ambitions gone awry. Simon Dale Then came various loans to friends, managerial experiments, the backing of an ill-starred opera, and a season of overwrought nerves. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians I did not know until long after that he had been formally arrested there for his participation in the chase of Miste that ended in that ill-starred miscreant's death. Dross The gallant chief found the Prince surrounded by those who, like himself, had consented, unwillingly, to join in the ill-starred enterprise. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. It was the weird threnody of the brilliant, but ill-starred Poe, who, like a meteor, blazed but for a moment, dazzling a hemisphere, and then went out forever in the darkness of death. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Whereupon there was shrill laughter, and further accusation and indignant protest from the ill-starred medico. Under Fire And here were the promoters of this ill-starred project fighting amongst themselves. The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway And now it came on to rain; and rain and wind and sea appeared to vie with each other in wreaking their fury on the ill-starred expedition. The Drummer Boy The ghost of the ill-starred Ailsee had occasionally been seen by the country folk, but always with dire results. The Statesmen Snowbound It was at this time that the ill-starred king, Louis XVI, tried to flee from the country, but was seized and held a prisoner. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers James I, son of the ill-starred Mary of Scotland, succeeded Elizabeth on the English throne in 1603, and held both England and Scotland under his sway. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 No one can deny the heroism of the men whose lives were sacrificed in this ill-starred expedition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" They defeated the ill-starred expedition of Cestius Gallus, and inflicted upon the Roman arms the most terrible disgrace they had ever endured in the East. With the British Army in The Holy Land Astrology has left many traces upon the English language, e.g. influence, disastrous, ill-starred, ascendant, etc. Milton's Comus The ill-starred war over, young Kitchener returned to Woolwich, and his school duties as though nothing special had happened. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers To the first it will never have even occurred to sail on the ill-starred boat, although this be the one that they should logically, inevitably, have been compelled to choose. The Buried Temple April was gone; May came in, bringing the anniversary of Rose's ill-starred marriage and finding her in that worst widowhood, a day of ceaseless tears and regrets to the unhappy, deserted wife. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Neither of us made any further reference to my bare-faced lying on that ill-starred night, but the more I thought of it the more equivocal did the present situation seem. The Lost Valley That she was eager to repeat her ill-starred attempt of 1588 and introduce into the British Isles the accursed Inquisition was patent to everyone. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century It would seem that some agency is suppressing accounts of ill-starred ventures. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls The ill-starred red people here are entirely at the mercy of interpreters, who, if not negro-slaves of their own, are half-breeds,—a worse set, generally, than the worst of either slaves or knaves. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy And then could she possibly have recognized him?—for it was no other than he that had borne the ill-starred flag. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 But it is singular to watch the fatality of error which pursued this ill-starred marriage. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg The ill-starred expeditions of Raleigh to Guiana in 1595 and again in 1617 belong rather to the history of exploration and colonization. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Both erudition and ignorance were left pretty well undisturbed during his short and ill-starred university career. Gibbon The mansion, never occupied after the ill-starred family left it, was destroyed by fire a few years before the time of the picnic excursion. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett From that point the first portion of the play easily unfolds: it deals with the strife, the brief triumphs and the bitter defeats which fill the eventful period of this ill-starred friendship. The Growth of English Drama You will betray innocent, confiding maidens, deceive loving friends, ruin families, and beget unfortunate, ill-starred beings. Dr. Dumany's Wife There was not one word of reply to the ill-starred Cobbens, not one syllable in appreciation of the efforts of the committee. The Mayor of Warwick Tyndall once caught an ill-starred spiritualistic impostor at his juggling. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence It was addressed to his steed, after an ill-starred journey to Islingtontown. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z And thus the ill-starred girl died a victim to my senseless rashness. The Last Man Thinking the present no time for boding ill-starred events, she hastily turned her mind from the subject. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton Better to die at the head of our brave Scotsmen, like our grandfather at Flodden, than of a broken heart like our ill-starred father.' Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Intoxication, brought on by the ill-starred luck of the ruined gamester? Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. With each narrator it grew funnier, until the party screamed with laughter over the misfortunes of the ill-starred prince. Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities Of such are the sombre wrap and woof of my ill-starred life. Infelice Jennifer broke me in the midst, crying out that I was even now killing the precious minutes; and so our ill-starred venture had its launching in the frenzied haste that seldom makes for speed. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The thin end of the wedge was in, and but for the move to Virginia, and its ill-starred consequences, the inevitable result must have followed. Princess Practically, its outward action is summed up in each of its three acts by the same words: Preparation for a meeting of the ill-starred lovers; the meeting. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art Would he always be looked upon as a waif, an ill-starred child, and in the eyes of the world, a pauper? Rod of the Lone Patrol He has been the bête noire of my ill-starred life, but even his malice has been satiated at last. Infelice A cry of sorrow and repentance by Lamech, at some ill-starred act, which filled him with remorse? The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. He chiefly divided his time between the House of Lords and sitting at home, lamenting over his own ill-starred existence. Elster's Folly She had a long list of worthy ancestors in Colonial and Revolutionary days, and the McNeils and General Knox figure largely in her genealogy, as well as the hero who killed the ill-starred Paugus. Pulpit and Press A universal wail burst from the exiles; it smote,—it overpowered the heart of the ill-starred king, in vain seeking to wrap himself in Eastern pride or stoical philosophy. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader There was nothing of the ill-starred Beau in his appearance. Fifth Avenue A rude iron cross, still standing by the road at Gudesburg, is said to mark the place where the ill-starred and unoffending young man met his doom. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine One ill-starred day, when it was pouring cats and dogs, and I could not get out, I challenged Maude to a game at billiards. Elster's Folly There is little more to relate of this ill-starred marriage, of which Bluebell was the fruit; for soon after her birth young Leigh was killed by being upset out of a dog-cart. Bluebell A Novel Out of this ill-starred commercial speculation, however, Lincoln derived one incidental benefit, and it may be said it became the determining factor in his career. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History Why did she thus obstinately cling to an ill-starred, unhappy passion? Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman It was here that there came into my head the ill-starred thought of leading them off the road and through the fields close alongside of it on our left hand. Corporal Sam and Other Stories The first intimation that ill-starred gentleman received of the untoward turn affairs were taking was from the Rector himself. Elster's Folly Presently the vessel grounded upon the beach, and immediately the ill-starred Egyptian and the entire crew were prisoners in the hands of a hostile mob. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology How many fair girls have shed tears over 'his ill-starred love' and melancholy fate, who little dreamed that he was a husband, in a very humble rank of life. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy This done, we went on to my tailor's to replace the ill-starred slacks. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 The ill-starred expedition to Greece followed this letter. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions In the multitude of memories which rushed upon him as he lay dying on that ill-starred battle-field, we may be sure that Boston, Bunker Hill, and the home and grave of Marshfield, were not forgotten. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 It was resolved that the great bell—the one whose casting had been jeopardized through the timidity of the ill-starred workman—should be rung upon the entrance of the bier into the cathedral. The Piazza Tales The genealogy does not mention the names of these ill-starred 'brethren,' partly because it traces the line of descent through 'Jeconias' or Jehoiachin, partly because it despises them too much. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Then at length came an ill-advised and ill-starred marriage, which broke under him and left him to wander forth in desolation. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World This gives an ominous significance to the obstinate refusal of the Government to alter or amend any of the material enactments contained in this ill-starred measure. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 On board was Cuyler with twenty-two survivors of the ill-starred convoy, besides twenty-eight men of Captain Hopkins's company. The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war They foresaw a Laurier regime which for futility and brevity would take its place in history with the ill-starred prime ministership of Mackenzie. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics There is no need to dwell here on the horrors of the rising of 1798, and of its repression, or on the political and financial chaos that marked the collapse of an ill-starred experiment. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union There was a gamblers' fight one night at the camp at Las Palmas mines, a man badly hurt, an ill-starred bystander dead, the careless gunman a fugitive, headed for the border. The Bells of San Juan It was an ill-starred moment for that honest boast. The Ramrodders A Novel It was at this juncture that he sent Captain Thomas Morris on his ill-starred mission to the tribes of the Mississippi. The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war In 1789 the Sansculottes were intending to destroy this mountainous Assumption, and some ill-starred idiot saved it by placing a cap of liberty on the Virgin's head! The Cathedral To this strong haven of refuge had come Mary Ellen Beauchamp from the far-off Western plains, after the death of her other relatives in that venture so ill-starred. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains It then became the sleeping-room of the ill-starred Louis XVI--who died in no bed. The Story of Versailles In that dark large eye lurked the profound and fiery enthusiasm of his ill-starred passion. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Coming back then to her Kentucky home from the ill-starred Californian trip, Mary Anderson seems to have determined to essay again the lowest steps of the ladder of fame. Mary Anderson "They were ill-starred, one as a saint and the other as a poet," Durtal concluded, as he drew back to get a better view of the front. The Cathedral Among them he beheld, with sorrow and pity, the ill-starred Queen of Carthage, the wound she had herself inflicted yet gaping in her fair bosom. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) With these we may associate the moralizing history that dealt in five books respectively with the persecutions of Sejanus, Flaccus, and Caligula, the ill-starred embassy, and the final triumph of the Jews over their enemies. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria In a still later day it saw the dawning greatness of that most brilliant but ill-starred of the Mogul Emperors, Aurungzebe. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) That gracious, ill-starred creature shut in a dungeon as a criminal, and given up to fearful torments! Faust The hammering of the shipwrights stopped at last; and the ill-starred Confiance, that ship which never had a chance to 'find herself,' led the little squadron into Prevost's death-trap in the bay. The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 O misery, what deep reproach I have laid On thee and me and our whole ill-starred race! The Seven Plays in English Verse The Duke of Bedford, when the ill-starred Jeanne fell into his hands, took away her life in order to stigmatize her memory with sorcery and to destroy the reputation she had acquired among the French. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft The antiquated royalism of the Elder or Legitimist branch of that ill-starred dynasty made it equally an impossibility. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) Since the morning of her ill-starred marriage, Sans Souci had waned like a waning moon; and the bridegroom saw, with dismay, his fairy bride slowly fading, passing, vanishing from his sight. The Missing Bride The Sicilian monarch, who had advised this ill-starred expedition, was destined to complete, by his delays, the evil he had begun by his counsels. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) Undid the pendent noose, and on the ground Lay the ill-starred queen. The Seven Plays in English Verse Not much later came that ill-starred Derby, which none who saw it can ever forget. Love Romances of the Aristocracy Celinda sleeps, too, like the ill-starred heroine of the novel of terror, "at the end of a long gallery, scarce within hearing of any other inhabited part of the house." The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance It was certain that the flash of lightning had lit up this ill-starred picture, and that to his predisposed fancy the painted figure had stood forth as an actual embodiment. The Lost Stradivarius Of the personal friends of that ill-starred Prince all escaped. The Liberation of Italy Many, too, were inflamed with that ill-starred notion of an attempt on Sicily, which was afterwards blown into a flame by Alkibiades and other orators. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Mr Birrell, who failed in most other things during his ill-starred Irish administration, was admirably energetic and suave in getting his University proposals through. Ireland Since Parnell He starts with an ill-starred name—a name that spells misfortune. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters Alas, the ill-starred young man had a mania for self-improvement. Shandygaff No wonder then, that with this catastrophe in prospect, he again entreated me to quit the ill-starred craft, carrying off nothing from her ghostly hull. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I In the meantime behold us again hopelessly outwitted by Eastern diplomacy as a direct consequence of this ill-starred outburst of hypocrisy about treaties! New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Braddock's ill-starred expedition was followed by the abandonment of the fort by the French, in November, 1758, and its subsequent rebuilding as Fort Pitt. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 It is an ill-starred perversity which 199 leads men to deny such a connection, merely because they have not found out how it is established. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher An ill-starred woman, whose well-to-do husband is engaged in business all day, finds that a dull life-weariness overtakes her. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The Grand Plateau has taken more lives than its ill-starred neighbor below. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Being firmly opposed to the arbitrary measures of the Duke of York, afterwards James II., he went to Holland, where he joined Monmouth, whom he accompanied on his ill-starred expedition. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature O torn and tempted and ill-starred And breaking heart, approve not nor demur; It is the serpent that beguileth thee With "God doth know" beneath this apple-tree. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. And thus the royal party broke up, and thus ended the first anniversary of the ill-starred union. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune Did I not enter with sad forebodings on this ill-starred expedition? Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Here was a chance for Jack Hill to achieve some glory and wipe away the disgrace of the ill-starred Quebec expedition. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings The king died; the mistress was banished in luxurious exile; and the dauphiness became the ill-starred Queen of France. Burke So in a year's time the store "winked out," leaving as its only important trace those ill-starred scraps of paper by which it had been founded. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I Mr. Jefferson showed him the cipher letters of that mysterious and ill-starred adventurer, which convinced Mr. Clay that Burr was certainly a liar, if he was not a traitor. Famous Americans of Recent Times While all these struggles and dissentions were prevailing in the unhappy city of New Amsterdam, and while its worthy but ill-starred governor was framing the above quoted letter, the English commanders did not remain idle. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete That ill-starred insurrection became, as he foresaw, a powerful spur to the policy started at Mount Vernon, and adopted by Virginia and Maryland. George Washington, Volume II Perhaps at this moment they live in a green old age, the chronicles of that fated period, when the mother country by her ill-starred policy threw away one of her brightest jewels. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832 They are helpless as fishes in a net—a scarcely rebellious population of the ill-matched and the ill-starred. Old and New Masters A good steady drill in arithmetic, geography, and language might have given his understanding a chance; but this ill-starred boy never had a steady drill in anything. Famous Americans of Recent Times The ill-starred lady uttered a wild scream, whereupon the castle and all that was within it, sank in a moment to the bottom of the lake. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 For sixty years following the ill-starred ventures of 1541-1542 no serious attempts were made to gain for France any real footing in the regions of the St. Lawrence. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 Just as some ill-starred human creatures are born physically or mentally defective—deformed or idiots—so may they be born spiritually defective. Deadham Hard They were plotting—deliberately plotting, as the price of secrecy on one part—to shut me up in a lunatic asylum until my consent could be obtained to that ill-starred marriage! Miriam Monfort A Novel Probably a fourth of their race perished in this ill-starred epoch. The Long White Cloud Never yet did an ill-starred young saint waste his Saturday afternoons in preaching sermons in the garret to his deluded little sisters and their dolls, without living to repent it in maturity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 To the ill-starred Burns was given the power of making man's life more venerable, but that of wisely guiding his own life was not given.... The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge In more startling relief than ever, the astounding change in Roger, wrought by those ill-starred two hours, stands out. Nancy It was, however, in connection with Monmouth's ill-starred enterprise that Bridgwater attained its chief historical notoriety, for it was here that the Duke had his headquarters before the fatal engagement on Sedgemoor. Somerset It was no storm drove the ill-starred boat to destruction: The Ayr was calm, and on the level brine, Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd, sounds the reply. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Now will it be believed that General Codrington, to whom was committed the planning and directing of this ill-starred and disastrous enterprise, succeeded Sir James Simpson as Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's forces in the Crimea? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 Such an act of revenge was committed by Clark at Vincennes, as one result of his ill-starred expedition against the Wabash Indians in 1786. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 The Earl of Kildare had meanwhile died in prison, broken-hearted at the news of this ill-starred rising, in which he doubtless foresaw the ruin of his house. The Story of Ireland Alarm succeeded alarm in Paris until, with the ill-starred feast to the Regiment of Flanders and the march on Versailles, alarm rose to panic. Calvert of Strathore And, rising in the social scale from the labourer to the farmer, what could be more lifelike than this tale of an ill-starred wooing? Collections and Recollections To catch the skirts of glory in thine hand, and tread the heels of happy chance, and yet come back again to ill-starred twilight--and to me! Master Skylark The subject of the traffic having become invested with interest, a portion of the members of the House paid a visit to the ill-starred craft. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 The ill-starred prince knelt on the stones and thanked God "for having preserved the friends of liberty and pure religion from the perils of the sea." Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter It is you," he cried; "the eyes are yours! ah, but let me look into yours; let me throw a veil over that ill-starred hour which gave its being to this little creature. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Alas! the peace of Eden was not more utterly destroyed by the treacherous wiles of the serpent than that of this ill-starred household by the whispers of this serpent in woman's shape. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Ah!" he cried, springing from his seat, "and what profit did the immortal and ill-starred Torquato Tasso win from all his genius? The Aspirations of Jean Servien The descendant of this ill-starred animal requiring increased attention from Mr Crummles as he progressed in his day's work, that gentleman had very little time for conversation. Nicholas Nickleby And whenever Clennam spoke, this ill-starred young man was clearly seized with a dread that he was coming, by some artful device, round to that point of wanting to know, you know. Little Dorrit The cold limbs of the ill-starred little creature chilled her to the heart. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes One thing was certain, that the savour which rose from the venison before him was the same which haunted his memory as the parting effort of the ill-starred Narcisse. The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes I say it: the laugh of innocence is the ill-starred veteran's joy. The Aspirations of Jean Servien No more incident of any note occurred in the family until the return of that ill-starred man the Master. Master of Ballantrae Mariana, the classical historian of Spain, tells the story of the ill-starred marriage which the King Don Alonso brought about between the heirs of Carrion and the two daughters of the Cid. Lays of Ancient Rome It struck me, when Dr. F. Jones was referring just now to Easter Monday, that the case of such an ill-starred president is very like that of the stag at Epping Forest on Easter Monday. Speeches: Literary and Social The prize crew soon had the vessel under proper sail once more and the living members of the ill-starred company carried below to their hammocks. Tarzan of the Apes It merely remains for me to substantiate these accusations; and then, with my ill-starred family, to disappear from the landscape on which we appear to be an encumbrance. David Copperfield The sword instantly attracted our attention; it was practically identical with the one in the possession of Mr Mackenzie which he had obtained from the ill-starred wanderer. Allan Quatermain Why," he added, "the people really worship the ground she walks upon and since her loss on that ill-starred expedition all Helium has been draped in mourning. A Princess of Mars Almost every day of that ill-starred vacation it stormed fiercely; and even on fine days it drifted unceasingly. Anne of the Island Erelong, he fondly believed, the recovery would be so far complete that he could consign to the tomb of pleasant memories even the most thrilling episodes of his ill-starred courtship. The House Behind the Cedars The parting had occurred a few weeks after Selden's visit, and would have taken place sooner had it not been for the resistance set up in Lily by his ill-starred offer of advice. House of Mirth O ill-starred maid! thou roamest now the hills, While on soft hyacinths he, his snowy side Reposing, under some dark ilex now Chews the pale herbage, or some heifer tracks Amid the crowding herd. The Bucolics and Eclogues So Larcom withdrew ceremoniously, and Lord Chelford hastened his toilet, and was down stairs, and in the room assigned by the housekeeper to the ill-starred Captain Lake, before Doctor Buddle had arrived. Wylder's Hand "Why didn't you tell me all that last night?" cried the ill-starred Lancaster. Till the Clock Stops An ill-starred reform movement, initiated by the Emperor, had failed, the government was discredited, and the Empress Dowager seized the throne for herself. The United States Since the Civil War I was well aware, though, that if my ill-starred fortune got the least hint of my connubial wish, my scheme would go to nothing. The Letters of Robert Burns He still held all the cards; he still controlled the fortunes of two ill-starred houses. The Crimson Blind Whatever humor there might have been in the ill-starred situation was destroyed for Madden by his friend's moral relapse. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Bullard had forgotten, for the time being, about the ill-starred Marvel, but the reminder did not trouble him. Till the Clock Stops What bones, pray, did the Sieur Pyramus, that ill-starred Babylonish knight, make of a wall? did not his protestations slip through a chink, mocking at implacable granite and more implacable fathers? The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages Yet when I looked upon the ill-starred and suffering being before me, my angry feelings became appeased, and the words of reviling and bitterness expired upon my lips. Theresa Marchmont Or, the Maid of Honour A Tale It was now, when I had begun to feel a bit at ease in my queer foreign environment, that Mr. Belknap-Jackson broached his ill-starred plan for amateur theatricals. Ruggles of Red Gap At last, as she filled with water, the schooner straightened with a mighty effort, a last stand between sea and sky, then sank slowly out of sight in a scene of wild and ill-starred beauty. The Cruise of the Dry Dock For that ill-starred sheet, mistaking utterly the times, held boldly along the way of its sympathies. The Gray Dawn Still did the goddess vex the beast ill-starred? Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays But apart from the sorrows of ill-starred love, she caught glimpses of something else—a terrible something which she did not understand. Tales of Two Countries To my sad soul, more mutely eloquent Than words of fame on sculptured monument Outspeaks yon crumbling parapet, where lies The broken gun, the idly rusting ball, Mute tokens of an ill-starred enterprise! War Poetry of the South They swore to work mine ill-starred father's death, They swore to die together; 'tis fulfilled. The House of Atreus The adverse winds and currents which had opposed Columbus throughout this ill-starred expedition, still continued to harass him. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) England! what a chance was thine, When the last tyrant of that ill-starred line Fled from his sullied crown and left thee free To found thy own eternal liberty! The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Lord Byron pretended to have seen it about a month before he contracted his ill-starred marriage with Miss Milbanke. Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey His ill-starred medical colleague had been his fellow-student and his friend, in the days when they were both young men. Blind Love Nay, but the deed is well; link not thy lips To speech ill-starred, nor vent ill-boding words— Who hast to Argos her full freedom given, Lopping two serpents' heads with timely blow. The House of Atreus These formed the ill-starred cargoes about which Niño had made such absurd vaunting, as though the ships were laden with treasure; and which had caused such mortification, disappointment, and delay to Columbus. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) Did the city fathers for one ill-starred moment forget their Tacitus, and silence the street music unmindful of those words, so familiar to them in their hours of classic relaxation--Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant? From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 I wondered if this were to be another ill-starred flight toward the Himalayas. Autobiography of a Yogi Persecuted as they were, they never suffered the martyrdom of the ill-starred Waldensian colonies in Calabria. Old Calabria The day has come at last when my ill-starred life has to reveal its destitution in a long-drawn series of exposures. The Home and the World The truth, as the world now knows, was that France was resolved to have some compensation for our ill-starred acquisition of Cyprus. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 Yonder is the ill-starred Eurydice, The Queen of Creon; from the house she comes By chance, or brought by tidings of her son. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles In this view he was sustained by his friend Degonnor, who had just returned from the ill-starred Sioux mission. A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II This ill-starred venture was then apparently in the full tide of prosperity, and promised to be a great lever in the uplifting of the submerged race. Frederick Douglass A Biography Oh, ill-starred creatures! wretched beyond all others, to inhabit a place so hard to speak of—better had ye been sheep or goats. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 He seems to have been a charming but ill-starred man, whom to know was to love. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 He was later employed as a surveyor in Melbourne, and then became assistant to Professor Neumayer at the Melbourne Observatory, a post he quitted in order to act as assistant-surveyor on the ill-starred journey. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work The motives of their secret souls rose to the eyes, and mouths, and foreheads, and hung there for all to see like the black banners of an assembly of ill-starred and fallen creatures. Three More John Silence Stories Alas, a bitter boat-faring for me, My bride ill-starred.—Oh, this is misery! Alcestis She had a long list of worthy ancestors in colonial and revolutionary days, and the McNeils, and General Knox, figure largely in her genealogy, as well as the hero who killed the ill-starred Paugus. Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) Many, too, were inflamed with that ill-starred notion of an attempt on Sicily, which was afterward blown into a flame by Alcibiades and other orators. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) The first was Epimetheus, who had probably suffered least of all from the general upset, having in truth little to lose since his ill-starred union with Pandora. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales But the fates were against us, as always in this ill-starred voyage. The Mystery For a moment meditation unpleasantly reminded Mrs Quantock of the Guru, but nothing could have been less like that ill-starred curry-cook than this majestic creature. Queen Lucia Early in life he had embraced the doctrines of the reformers, and he remained to the last the trusted and consistent, though ill-starred, champion of the Protestants. General History for Colleges and High Schools Oh, yes, right well I know Who 'twas that knit this ill-starred marriage up. Don Carlos From mine own self I shrink with horror back, Should a chance brook reflect my ill-starred form. Wilhelm Tell Nothing more was said of the affair, nor of the ill-starred Maria Clara. The Social Cancer Strachey had been in office in the ill-starred Coalition under Fox and North. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography The same faith in the influence of the stars survives in 'disastrous,' 'ill-starred,' 'ascendancy,' 'lord of the ascendant,' and, indeed, in 'influence' itself. On the Study of Words The Federals lost about four thousand men in this ill-starred affair. A Brief History of the United States During that period the activities of the English were confined to exploration and piracy, with the exception of the ill-starred attempts of Gilbert and Raleigh to colonize Newfoundland and North Carolina. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. He could have smiled at the memory of that ill-starred passion now. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths The same sort of blight seemed to hang over France during Louis XV.'s reign, as overshadowed the Russia of the ill-starred Nicholas II. Here, There and Everywhere Colonel Hartz, detached from his cavalry command for service in the prison- hospital at Sondreig, was second in command here as he had been to Schmedding in that former ill-starred expedition. Red Fleece Lawrence, of the Hornet, having captured the British brig Peacock, on his return was placed in command of the Chesapeake, the ill-starred frigate which struck her flag to the Leopard off the coast of Virginia. A Brief History of the United States Such expressions in our language as "ill-starred," "a lucky star," "disaster," "lunacy," and so on, indicate the hold which astrology once enjoyed upon the human mind. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? He resolved on sleepless vigilance till the prize was secured, and mentally cursed the ill-starred visit to the country over and over again. From Jest to Earnest Such were the conclusions which one by one took shape in the mind of that ill-starred man, Morris Monk. Stella Fregelius After thirty years, David S. Terry, judge, general, and champion of the South, was destined to die at the feet of his brother-judge, whose pathway inclined Northwardly from that ill-starred moment. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance But the majority only play for a suburban villa and a few hundred pounds a year; Queen Christina of Spain handled her cards for a throne and the continuance of an ill-starred dynasty. In Kedar's Tents Of modern poets Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and Swinburne have sung the passion of the ill-starred lovers. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music This Whig plan of conciliation, however well intended, seemed not to prosper with either party; and many were the missiles directed at the ill-starred doctor. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 How Greek her tone Of question, all of Ilion overthrown, And how the kings came back, the wizard flame Of Calchas, and Achilles' mighty name, And ill-starred Agamemnon. The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides The less said about this splendid but ill-starred effort the better. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Thus there had been no danger of Anne meeting the fate of the ill-starred Ginevra, the heroine of the ballad. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School We have now examined all of the "Invincible" except for her main weapon,—her beak; for the trireme is really herself one tremendous missile to be flung by the well-trained rowers at the ill-starred foe. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life Enquiries were also made as to when the ill-starred gentleman had last been seen, and where. South Wind Anne never left England after her ill-starred arrival, ending her days peacefully in 1557. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries Poor child, it needs no prophetic vision to predict your ill-starred career! Beulah |
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