We thought it a great misfortune, as our provisions were running short; but it has proved to me indeed a happy occurrence.
All the attendants saw the accident, but they could give no help; so was Madame drowned, which was a great misfortune.
I could not go thus without great expense; moreover, the road is long, and if it happened that we lost either our goods or honour (which may God forfend) it would be a great misfortune.
Soon afterwards she died, which was a great misfortune; and it need not be told what grief fell upon the said lord, her husband, when he heard the news.
It would have been a great misfortune if you had loved him before you had reason to know that he loved you;--a great misfortune.
It would be a great misfortune to Prussia if she could not yet owe to her great king a long and happy reign.
But enough of this; if I do not recognize this as a civil war, it is indeed a great misfortune.
War is never a good fortune," sighed the king--"for the people it is great misfortune.
Said Pasha's death was a great misfortuneto me and to all, as he was favourable to the children of the country.
Though I abstain from politics, I confess I think the Gladstonian triumph a great misfortune.
It is a great misfortune that we should have been ruined before he could enter the Ecole Normale.
Monsignor Palma, a theologist expert in all canonical affairs, and a perfectly honest man in pecuniary matters, had met with a great misfortune in his life.
He leaned indolently against the trunk of the large oak, and replied in his sweet and musical voice, "Alas, my dear De Guiche, it is a great misfortune.
I have a presentiment that a great misfortune is going to happen.
It often requires a head more solidly screwed on the shoulders to bear a great success than to stand a great misfortune.
Love will survive a great misfortune, but will be killed by the little miseries of conjugal partnership.
It is a great misfortune not to be loved by the one you love; but it is a still greater one to be loved by the one whom you have ceased to love.
In the presence of a great misfortune, nature seems to harden itself; it bends or breaks only under the petty miseries of existence.
This was a great misfortune, no doubt; for her heart would have been to you a treasure of affection.
It is a great misfortune for me; for my love will kill me, if I cannot succeed in crushing it, which would be little better than death itself.
It is a great misfortune for a land when its king is a Don Quixote,' grumbled the senator; 'every fool in the kingdom quotes his example as authority.
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