So they might have, if an unlucky shot had not struck the Sophie's foretopgallant yard.

They weren't too far from the outer hull in Delta section, and all it would take was one really unlucky shot to puncture the hull.

It was an unlucky shot that did them in, a spring-loaded bolt that split the yard and brought down their sails.

They managed to fight them down and get them tied to trees, spaced apart so one unlucky shot would not kill them all.

And he did it with the fans actually cheering when he hit an unlucky shot.

And an unlucky shot through that brandy wont help either.

An unlucky shot hit Phillip in the right heel, which must have been very painful when he used the rudder controls.

Compared with Trafalgar there was little honour in that; but an unlucky shot or splinter could make you just as dead.

But having so many cartridges out of the magazine always risked a flash from one of the guns, or an unlucky shot from the British.

Damned unlucky shot!