...will be at your back, going in that direction,' Colonel Hursley says, bidding his visitor good-bye. ' It is an ill wind that blows no one any good, and I can't complain of the harbour it drove me into this morning,' says Mr. Kennicote. Then he starts...

...The Heywoods were depressed at losing their son. Jessy Fraser was disabled, disfigured, and in pain. It is an ill wind that blows no one any good, and this wind blew young Dr. Hooper to a patient in the Crescent, where he had long been hoping to find...

...very brave Frenchmen were resolved to keep them out. And these had the weather in their favour ; for it is an ill wind that blows no one any good ; and the rain that rains on the just and unjust seems to have a preference for the latter. Though it must...

...philosophic pride, reckons a blessing. This finds its popular expression in the oft-repeated proverb, it is an ill wind that blows no one any good; and this may be applied to the French Revolution of 1793. For while the Angel of Death was writing this...

...his hands occupied ; whereas, if he had no paper before him, he would not know what to do with them. It is an ill wind that blows no one any good, and it must be a very bad practice indeed which has not some remote and occasional advantages. For nervousness,...

...stables — with a vengeance. There will be nothing left for us lawyers to fatten on soon, they say. But it is an ill wind that blows no one any good ; and you will be all the better for it — you'll see. You won't go with me to Westminster, I suppose ?...

...registered his confession of attempted imposture, and drew up a proces verbal, to which he affixed his seal. It is an ill wind that blows no one any good, and the matter was for several days the talk of the town, and increased my practice for the time. When...

...very brave Frenchmen were resolved to keep them out. And these had the weather in their favour ; for it is an ill wind that blows no one any good ; and the rain that rains on the just and unjust seems to have a preference for the latter. Though it must...

...strength or power that a more artificial life would not, so that even in spirit life one can say that "it is an ill wind that blows no one any good," and thus we are the gainers. If the conditions had been right, and man had been hospitable to its advent,...

...shower came up about ten o'clock at night and continued at intervals until late the next morning. " It is an ill wind that blows no one any good," and if the gnats and mosquitoes did keep us awake all night they allowed us to start two hours earlier...