As the sun beat down on Sicily last summer, there was the traditional water shortage and the luckless residents of Palermo knew who to blame. |
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Poetry, being one of those luckless art forms whose practitioners remain in constant danger of outnumbering their audience, is rarely news. |
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If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you hairless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it! |
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He was living in New York by that stage, opening one luckless restaurant after another and putting on weight, but still attracting young women. |
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But luckless Paul, 40, is refusing to allow his spirits to wane and is looking optimistically to the future. |
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The luckless spy spent most of the war in prisons and internment camps eking out a living as a stool pigeon. |
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Before that I'd been living directly opposite, in a luckless bivouac best forgotten, sharing with two couples. |
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But collectively they present a hazy picture of a luckless dreamer with unfortunate amatory judgment. |
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In the film, Reeves plays a luckless, down-at-heel gambler heavily in debt to the bookies. |
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At the end of his dive, woe betide any luckless invertebrate in the path of his trawl net. |
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It's mind-boggling to think that, a mere four years before, Hendrix had been a luckless session player. |
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She remains, as she always has been, a pleasant, thoughtful young woman, but the luckless Schnyder found her in mean mood. |
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The Master, James, finally dies only after he has succeeded in frightening his luckless victim into dying first. |
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As the train stayed stubbornly put, she began mentally to sketch out a story about a luckless orphan who became a wizarding hero. |
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A freak goal 10 minutes from time consigned luckless Lancaster City to a sixth successive league defeat at Giant Axe on Saturday. |
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I'm not knocking the luckless officer, who is going to be in trouble whether or not he had a beer. |
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But few policyholders will find themselves in the perilous state shared by her luckless investors. |
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As you leave the wreck, look out for squid hovering on the edge of your boat's pool of light, waiting for luckless fish who are also attracted by the glare. |
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Who wouldn't stand aside, to give precedence to the luckless creator of so many worthy women? |
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I'm one of those luckless Hillary men, my once-sought after green bracelet now as worthless as a fat fistful of lira. |
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Stirling County will remember their last match of this season after scoring seven touchdowns in their relegation consigning job on luckless Peebles. |
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The latest injury to the luckless Henderson is a huge blow for the player. |
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On luckless occasions my protestations that dancing might aggravate an old shrapnel wound have been overruled, and I have been dragged out onto the dance floor. |
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Following two largely luckless years at the Stadio delle Alpi, he moved to Valencia in a bid to rediscover his form. |
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But in a new twist a witness has come forward and identified the van in which the kidnappers were driving when they nabbed the luckless straw man. |
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Bernie is the quintessential ironic protagonist, the luckless man. |
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Adding injury to insult, luckless Eagle Mitch Brown suffered a season-ending knee injury. |
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In most cases, the luckless children had lost one or both parents to death, desertion or imprisonment. |
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England also advanced from the section after they completed a horrible campaign for luckless Argentina with a 6-1 win. |
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Then they defeated the luckless Switzerland 2-0 to finish on four points but not with the qualifying berth that looked likely at one time. |
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Italy thumped seven past Mihály Kozma's luckless side to notch up the biggest hammering of the night. |
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Can Nigeria end their luckless run in the FIFA World Cup by bouncing back with a win that keeps them in contention? |
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Vying with them for the headlines, however, were the luckless Cruz Azul, who have now lost five finals in the last two seasons. |
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Even the luckless vigilant may discover the rewards of a night out on a tropical beach. |
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To lessen the impact of luckless privateers, outfitters would join together to share the risk and the profit! |
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The dog-collar seller tips his billycock and disappears, but his luckless companion, having fetched a small black object out of his knapsack, lingers. |
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She didn't swing her hips, pucker her lips, roll her eyes, flare her nostrils, smoke fetchingly or lure luckless men to dark destinies by deceiving them. |
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Just a few metres away from where most of the crashes have happened is a deep, open drain, certain to present a luckless driver with anything but a soft landing. |
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Does any member of the cheesy celebrity class get caught more often than the luckless Fergie? |
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From a luckless spell in his late teens at French outfit Rennes to a barren season in Portugal, the Brazilian has had to endure numerous disappointments before finally earning approval throughout the football world. |
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Was there ever such a luckless airline as Malaysian Airlines? |
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The last Earl of Wessex was the luckless King Harold, the cyclopic monarch who came out second best at the Battle of Hastings. |
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But in the end the smart money is still in the same place that it was this time 12 years ago: on the luckless vice-president rather than the governor. |
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Dale Thomas never quite caught on in his first season at the Blues and this one started disastrously too as the luckless on-baller ran off the ground in the opening minutes with a season-denting shoulder dislocation. |
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It will then be the investigators' luckless task to prove them wrong. |
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After commercial training in the banking sector, a luckless marriage and the joys of motherhood, after fifteen years in Switzerland, my homesickness for Africa had not abated. |
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The Stags went in front thanks to an early own goal from luckless Imps keeper Paul Farman. |
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In fact, the only character who does not get the better of Hood is the luckless Sheriff. |
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As if to make their dominance abundantly clear, Penarol then added a second when opportunistic winger Silva intercepted a poor back pass and raced towards Rimmer's goal before burying the ball beyond the luckless custodian. |
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If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. |
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He was kept out of the attack for 16 overs, with Masters huffing and puffing, with a fair bit of snarling, in a testing and luckless eight-over opening burst from the Hayes Close end. |
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Belarus is a small, historically luckless country of 9.5 million. |
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She chastised the luckless philanthropist, complaining that he had disrupted the choir's performance and that he might have caused a serious situation, what with the stampeding shoppers and all. |
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The visitors took the lead after just 10 minutes when Rowe's corner into the danger area cannoned off luckless defender Brian Saah and into his own net. |
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