It recurred to me that it was a curious whim of fate that this ill-starred camp of famine and death, in earlier days, should have marked the very outset of our modern effort to reach the Pole.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The wind was whistling up the street, the first drops of a rain storm starred the pavement, and there was a pleasant glow behind Mr. Tan's window-panes.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Such a life of mistakes is that of the beautiful Dorothea, the ill-starred wife of Casaubon.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind