luckiness

Example Sentences

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"My stars are not remarkable for their luckiness in a general way," answered Mr. Hawkehurst, coolly, for the man had not yet been born from whom he would accept patronage.

From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

A similar belief about the luckiness of “new water” exists at Canzano Peligno in the Abruzzi.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

Her remark was followed by a short silence, during which her hearers were, perhaps, questing for consolatory rejoinders rather than congratulating themselves upon their own luckiness.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

Probably the superstition was based entirely on the supposed luckiness of the right hand, which accordingly, in making a circuit round an object, is kept towards the centre.

From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Frazer, James George, Sir

He has been pursued, day by day and year by year, by a most phenomenal and astonishing luckiness.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark