luckie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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O eyes! behold your happy Hesperus, That luckie Load-starre of eternall light, Left as that sunne alone to comfort vs, When our worlds sunne is vanisht out of sight.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril
My matter frameth well, thys is a luckie chaunce.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward
This y�ere was verie luckie to the English nation, but yet the armie of the Danes lodged all the winter season in the Ile of Tenet.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England by Holinshed, Raphael
And this one thing s�emed onelie to disappoint the luckie fortune that was accustomed to follow Cesar in all his other enterprises.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) by Holinshed, Raphael
It’s well for’t, luckie, it was not his head instead of its tail.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin
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