After that, despite any hard-luck stories, I might have thought of quitting.

They are prone to giving money to someone with a hard-luck story.

No one with a hard-luck story ever appealed to him in vain.

Meeting anybody in Baghdad these days involves listening to a hard-luck story, most of which is likely to be true.

The one who knew he'd always been a sucker for a hard-luck story and a pair of big, brown eyes.

The commission does not track how many of these hard-luck stories have happy endings.

They are the hard-luck stories of the century's end, and they really aren't so hard at all.

My mother couldn't turn away anyone with a hard-luck story.

There's a woman with a hard-luck story who leads him to a change of heart.

And no matter what price they settled on, the car would reveal its own hard-luck story before too long.