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Meanings of luckless in английском

Having or bringing misfortune.

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Usage of luckless in английском
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Ten miles, however, that the luckless prisoner had not managed to negotiate.
New york: the novel
2
Really all nature seemed to be in league against the luckless colonists.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
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John braced himself and yanked a luckless perch high in the air.
A Son of the City / A Story of Boy Life
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REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned.
The Devil's Dictionary
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Friday was the luckless day of my own failure and broken heart.
Angling Sketches
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This luckless piece of evidence undoubtedly influenced the jury to convict him.
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office
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The luckless Mr Liu was an employee of Chaoyang District Hygiene Office.
The Irish Times
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That was wish enough for a luckless scarred bitch such as she.
The gunslinger
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As for the luckless idols, they received more hard knocks than supplications.
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
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I had rather my aunt should have let my luckless love-affair alone.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
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I seemed declimatized, denationalized, a luckless victim of fate and morbid fancy.
Across China on Foot
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Eat, luckless stranger, and make merry with such fare as is here.
The Odyssey of Homer
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Chance had made him, chance which had been luckless for Jimmy Montague.
Winner Take All
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The luckless Siebenburg's creditors, too, would now be added to his own.
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 04
15
He is more luckless than the rest of us-mayAllah help him!
Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
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She had nothing else to say for a man she thought luckless!
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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