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Definition of Misfortunes
1. misfortune [n] - See also: misfortune
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misfortunes
Literary usage of Misfortunes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America by Louis Hennepin, Victor Hugo Paltsits (1903)
"A Continuation of the misfortunes of M. de la Salle, with an Account of two
Voyages he ... And as to the misfortunes that befell the worthy Gentleman I ..."
2. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... as I thought, the mof t agreeable life that nature was capable of directing,
or that a man always bred to misfortunes was capable of being retreated to. ..."
3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving (1868)
"He found him on the 24th of June, and learnt from him another chapter of misfortunes
which had recently befallen that ill-fated race. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"But his misfortunes came out of his faults, Ruth," I said very gently, for I
quite understood the solemn monotony of her voice. ..."
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