Barclay was standing before the fire. The others had drifted out. He's a big man pitted with the smallpox. He made a gesture, flinging out his hand toward the door. "That bunch thinks there's a curse on treasure, Sir Henry. That's one of the oldest notions in the world . it's unlucky." "But I know where there's a treasure that's not unlucky. At least it was not unlucky for poor Charlie Tavor.英文原著 · 《The Sleuth of St. James Street》
"'I say, oughtn't we to be going back?' I said. 'What's the use of sticking at it? It is evident enough that we have happened on an unlucky day!'
"But, in spite of heat and fatigue, Pechorin didn't like to return empty-handed. That is just the kind of man he was; whatever he set his heart on he had to have -- evidently, in his childhood, he had been spoiled by an indulgent mother. At last, at midday, we discovered one of those cursed wild boars -- Bang! -- No good! -- Off it went into the reeds. That was an unlucky day, to be sure!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Whereupon Brandenburg, Electorship and all Titles with it, came to Otto, third son of Kaiser Ludwig, who is happily the last of these Bavarian Electors. They were an unlucky set of Sovereigns, not hitherto without desert; and the unlucky Country suffered much under them. By far the unluckiest, and by far the worst, was this Otto; a dissolute, drinking, entirely worthless Herr; under whom, for eight years, confusion went worse confounded; as if plain chaos were coming; and Brandenburg and Otto grew tired of each other to the last degree.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 2》
But the place where he had built from the wreck of the unlucky Santa Maria his unlucky fort of La Navidad did not suit him. It was low, damp and unhealthy. He must find a better place. After looking about for some time he finally selected a place on the northern side of the island. You can find it if you look at the map of Hayti in the West Indies; it is near to Cape Isabella.英文原著 · 《The True Story of Christopher Columbus》
You wasn't born right. You was born under an unlucky star." You don't know how that comforted me. It wasn't my fault--all my bumps and coffee-pots! I was just unlucky and it had to be. How I had to be bumped to learn better! Now when I get bumped I try to learn the lesson of the bump and find the right path, so that when I see that bump coming again I can say, "Excuse me; it hath a familiar look," and dodge it. The seeress is the soothing syrup for mental infants. Blind Man's Fine Sight
The other day I watched a blind man go down the aisle of the car to get off the train.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
"Oh, yes," he said, "if you MEET it. You mustn't overtake it -- that's unlucky. So is a cross-eyed man unlucky. Cross-eyed men ought to be kept off racecourses."英文原著 · 《Three Elephant Power》