In the long run, even taking into account undoubted occasional successes, experience goes to show that this is not really a very useful thing to do, even when the right hand is used.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
The very successes he had won elsewhere were really so many disparagements to him now, giving promise, as it were, of his ability.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
In the midst of all his fresh London successes came a summons from Basel, which must have made the painter smile a little grimly.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue