I always wanted 'to have something on,' as John Sibley would say.

No matter what it was, I must have something on it.
And I was very lucky--worse luck!" They all laughed at the bull.

"I feel at home at once," murmured the Young Doctor, for he had come from near Enniskillen years agone, and there is not so much difference between Enniskillen and Kerry when it comes to Irish bulls.
"Worse luck, it was," continued Crozier, "because it made me confident of always winning.

It's hard to say how early I began to believe I could see things that were going to happen.

By the hour I used to shake the dice on the billiard-table at Castlegarry, trying to see with my eyes shut the numbers about to come up.