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MISFORTUNE

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misfortune substantiv

nenorocire; nefericire; calamitate;

(prov.) misfortunes never come alone / singly o nenorocire nu vine niciodată singură.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Then said the maid: “What a clever Elsie we have!” and sat down beside her and began loudly to weep over the misfortune.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

My whole manner of thinking of our late misfortune was changed.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was our misfortune that our only child took after his people rather than mine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is your misfortune, my dear fellow.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know that the sympathy of a stranger can be but of little relief to one borne down as you are by so strange a misfortune.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Who that knows what his misfortunes have been, can help feeling an interest in him?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She must not appear to think it a misfortune.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I had only one misfortune, that the rats on board carried away one of my sheep; I found her bones in a hole, picked clean from the flesh.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Regard for a former servant of my own, who had since fallen into misfortune, carried me to visit him in a spunging-house, where he was confined for debt; and there, in the same house, under a similar confinement, was my unfortunate sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I don't know anything about them, thought Beth, and forgetting the boy's misfortune in her flurry, she said, hoping to make him talk, "I never saw any hunting, but I suppose you know all about it."

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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