Exactly the same tide of emotion which afterwards filled to the brim the cup of prophetic anger against the desecrators of the Church and the monarchy of France, now poured itself out against those who in India had "tossed about, subverted, and tore to pieces, as if it were in the gambols of boyish Unluckiness and malice, the most established rights and the most ancient and most revered institutions of ages and nations."
"Burke"
John Morley
He was teased with being unduly superstitious and attaching too much significance to the supposed Unluckiness of the number thirteen.
"Over the Top With the Third Australian Division"
G. P. Cuttriss
I had rather, rather a thousand-fold lose my paltry stake, and be the one recorded victim to such an unexampled Unluckiness that half a dozen mad comets, suns gone wrong, and lunatic moons must have come laboriously into conjunction for my special sake to bring it to pass, which were no slight honour, properly considered!
"The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846"
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett