"Luck" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cause of the extraordinary fluctuations of form which all cricketers, from the greatest to the least, are more or less subject to? It cannot be set down altogether to luck, for a run of bad luck, such as all men have at times experienced, is often compatible with being in the very best form. A man who is playing very well at the net often gets out directly he goes in to bat in a match, whilst many a ...
— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs
... the tender melody; and the reassuring phrase was repeated a dozen times. Then by ill-luck they caught sight of the astonished Alice, and dropping their musical efforts they hailed her familiarly. Clearly they were the stragglers of some picnic from the town, the engaging type of gentleman who on such occasions is drunk by midday. They were dressed ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... luck, Peter," Tom said. "If the parcel had been sent to the house, aunt would never have let us have them; now we can take them in quietly, get some powder and balls, and practice shooting every day in some quiet place. That will be capital. Do you know I have thought of a ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty
... third realm, to frequent? 50 Heaven thou affects: with Romulus, temples brave, Bacchus, Alcides, and now Caesar have. Gold from the earth instead of fruits we pluck; Soldiers by blood to be enriched have luck. Courts shut the poor out; wealth gives estimation. Thence grows the judge, and knight of reputation. All,[405] they possess: they govern fields and laws, They manage peace and raw war's bloody jaws. Only our loves let not such rich churls gain: 'Tis well if some wench for the poor remain. 60 Now, ...
— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe
... as I talk to him a little bit I figure we had luck riding with us when we see them Leopards. This cat's got real bad stuff. Yeah, I never hear of anything like it. But what it takes to make a fight he's got. I take my old pistol and give it to Tiny. Hell, it makes him ...
— The Day of the Boomer Dukes • Frederik Pohl
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