"By luck" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been sure that the ball would have gone to the harlequin, I would have broken the rascal's bank, as you did. I will say honestly that I do not know whether you won by luck or skill, but the most probable hypothesis, to my mind, is that you knew the direction of the ball. You must confess that there is something to be said in favour of ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... Lulie Hallett had many quiet talks together. Ever since the evening of the seance when, partially by craft and partially by luck, he had prevented her father's discovering young Howard's presence in the house, she had unreservedly given him her friendship. And this gift Galusha appreciated. He had liked her when they first met ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... a prudence of a higher strain. Let him learn that every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck, and that what he sows he reaps. By diligence and self-command let him put the bread he eats at his own disposal, that he may not stand in bitter and false relations to other men; for the best good of wealth is freedom. Let him practise the minor virtues. How much of human life is ...
— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... longed to get into the Nine-hills, for Klas told him that every one who by luck or cunning should get a cap of the little ones might go down with safety, and instead of their making a servant of him, he would be their master. The person whose cap he got would be his servant, ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian • Various
... of bald-headed Nicodemus do you call yourself, and what are you trying to do?" he shouted. "It's only by luck and chance and because the webbin's held that me and my wife ain't laying stiff ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... forty years I've tasted Sweet and bitter supplied by Luck, Never thinkin' an hour was wasted, Whether I blobbed or whether I stuck. Long as I had some kind of wicket, 'Twas never the wrong 'un, fast or slow; An' I thank my stars I took to ...
— More Cricket Songs • Norman Gale
... wouldn't do the thing yourself; neither you, nor squire, nor captain; and no more will I. Silver trusted me; I passed my word, and back I go. But, doctor, you did not let me finish. If they come to torture me, I might let slip a word of where the ship is; for I got the ship, part by luck and part by risking, and she lies in North Inlet, on the southern beach, and just below high water. At half-tide she must be high ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson |
