Meanings of unmerited misfortune in English

The fear of inopportune benefits was in its way as oppressive as the dread of unmerited misfortune.

But the pleasure is loftier, and may comfort our unmerited misfortune for a while, in making a false friend drunk.

He that had the deepest interest in their safety and success must surely feel the deepest sorrow at their unhappy and unmerited misfortune.

Pecuniary embarrassment, with Louis, as with many less important people, was quite as much a symptom of weakness as a result of unmerited misfortune.

He is too wide-brained to speak of life as "all good" when he knows of inherited disease, cruelty, preventable poverty, gross neglect and unmerited misfortune.

Here my little friend's sense of his unmerited misfortunes overpowered him, and he began to cry.

Nevertheless she bore up bravely under the load of the unmerited misfortunes which had fallen upon her.

Wherever might lie the sin of fraud and falsehood, the unmerited misfortunes of poor Hester were palpable enough.

Can I dismiss from memory the unmerited misfortunes which have taken from me, in the prime of her charms, the woman whom I love?