Unprosperously

Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this — to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For these were the rewards of the old Covenant; and nothing then was feared so much as widowhood, childlessness, untimely mournings, to be visited with famine, to have their affairs go on unprosperously. ❋ Editor (1889)

No, but because he fancies that, for want of acquiring his freedom, he has hitherto lived under restraint and unprosperously. ❋ Various (1887)

The slave-owners finding their slaves escaping thus unprosperously out of their grasp, set themselves to find a remedy for so desperate a disease, and were swift to avail themselves of any weakness, mental or bodily, through which to retain them in life. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)

Her life, begun not unprosperously, had come down to this -- to a mean prison and a long, ignoble bondage. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

My affairs, meanwhile, at the play-table went on not unprosperously, and I was just on the point of marrying the widow Cornu (we were at Brussels by this time, and the poor soul was madly in love with me,) when the ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

But it was best to dismiss all things, he being so weak; to resign himself; all this had happened before, and had passed away, prosperously or unprosperously; it would pass away in this case, likewise; and in the morning whatever might be delusive would have disappeared. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

My affairs, meanwhile, at the play-table went on not unprosperously, and I was just on the point of marrying the widow Cornu (we were at ❋ Unknown (2006)