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They calmed down a bit to-night. You blokes is lucky comin' in just w'en you did." "I ain't got a pal left out o' my section. You'll see some of 'em. We ain't 'ad time to bury 'em." They were soon gone and we were left in ignorance of the situation.
I say, it was lucky for you that you bethought yourself at last of your duty; or, I promise you, the last should have been your very last night in your palace that it should, she continued with increasing vehemence, striking her stick on the ground till the walk rang again.
A technical circumstance like this was doubtless overlooked in the general satisfaction with the event, the most evident feature in which was the relief of the Government, who just then stood badly in need of credit. "The ministerial people feel it very sensibly," Lady Rodney wrote him. "It is a lucky stroke for them at this juncture."
If I had not answered that question I make no doubt I should not have been included in the lucky three." "Well, well," said Mrs. Aylmer. She looked restless and disturbed. She went again to the little window and looked out. "I don't see how you can help yourself," she said. "But it was a mean thing, wasn't it, mother?"
And so Coupeau squinted admiringly at My-Boots. Why, the lucky dog even had a gold ring on his little finger! Gervaise touched Coupeau on the shoulder just as he was coming out of the little Civet. "Say, I'm waiting; I'm hungry! I've got an empty stomach which is all I ever get from you." But he silenced her in a capital style, "You're hungry, eh?
There was a woman who could not get on with her husband and a man who complained that his wife had run away from him. "Lucky dog," said Walker. "Most men wish their wives would too." There was a long complicated quarrel about the ownership of a few yards of land. There was a dispute about the sharing out of a catch of fish.
His profits from a single voyage sometimes reached $70,000; the average profits from a single voyage were $30,000. During the War of 1812-15 tea rose to double its usual price. Astor was invariably lucky in that his ships escaped capture. At one period he was about the only merchant who had a cargo of tea in the market. He exacted, and was allowed to exact, his own price.
In or about the year of our Lord 1640, when all the troubles of England were swelling to an outburst, great estates in the North country were suddenly confiscated, through some feud of families and strong influence at Court, and the owners were turned upon the world, and might think themselves lucky to save their necks.
When she was gone, however, he returned to the weather for conversation; but when Statira said it was lucky for her that the winter held off so, he made out to inquire about her sickness, and she told him that she had caught a heavy cold; at first it seemed just to be a head-cold, but afterwards it seemed to settle on the lungs, and it seemed as if she never could throw it off; they had had the doctor twice; but now she was better, and the cough was nearly all gone.
It is true, then, that he is a person who offends your taste? That is bad. Tell me about him, Musard." He reached himself a chair and sat down near the foot of the bed. "You are always making a fuss of some worthless creature," grumbled Musard. "I do not even know the man's name. They speak of him as Peter the Lucky it is a nickname he has on the streets, an apache name.
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