evil star
Example Sentences
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Don't you think, after all, it is tempting our evil star to rent those fields from the landlord?”
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
His evil star would have it that he showed his thumb one day to Pizarro, who could make nothing of it.
From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert R?ville
Her prayers can shake and avert the threatenings of each evil star, however firmly fixed in the judgment heaven.
From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
My third experience of a "pig-headed" master mariner, followed very quickly—so quickly, that I began to think some evil star attended my fortunes, or rather misfortunes.
From "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 by Louis Becke
The powers of darkness, it seems, are to be defeated; the evil star, it seems, has set and the star of hope arisen.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
