Five years before Kane had sacrificed two of Bell's sisters as part of an ill-fated sorcerous experiment.

The ill-fated experiment had no practical use, but it did create some interesting collectors' items from the early 1860's.

He had never touched the jewel since the ill-fated experiment with kirian.

The country's ill-fated experiment with "managed care" has shown that the free-market model doesn't work for health care.

Ms. Pogrebin's childhood, spent in public schools in Jamaica, except for a two-year "ill-fated experiment" at a yeshiva, ended when her mother died when she was 15.

Still, Hundley agreed to an ill-fated experiment: if he could play the outfield, the Mets could keep both Piazza and Hundley in their lineup.

The "21" Club has renewed vigor after its ill-fated experiments with Frenchification.

Whereas India's democratic system has at least earned legitimacy through longevity, Pakistan's history is littered with the wreckage of military regimes and ill-fated democratic experiments.

In two ill-fated experiments to promote sales through the employment of an outside manager (one in 1942-45, the other in 1954), O' Rahilly took the reverses very much to heart.

The next year, Austin's employer tried the same ill-fated experiment.