Citations:hapless


 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, ch. 8:
 * Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
 * 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, ch. 9:
 * We saw the ruins of this hapless city from the height of the tower of San Marco.
 * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VII, Over-Production
 * Our heart’s wish is to save thee: yet there as thou art, hapless Anomaly, with nothing but thy yellow parchments, noisy futilities, and shotbelts and fox-brushes, who of gods or men can avert dark Fate?
 * 1914, John Galsworthy, The Mob, act 1:
 * My dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes?
 * 2008, Harriet Barovick, "Detroit The Lost Season," Time, 31 Dec.:
 * The hapless squad, which was outscored 517-268 in 2008, became the first in league history to go 0-16.