evil star

Example Sentences

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Tell, in the poet's own words, what this "evil star" was.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Ministry of Education

An evil star, it would seem, has so far pursued you.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Assessor Hubert could not have come at a more inopportune moment, but the evil star which had always controlled this young man's wooing, now guided him into the presence of his beloved.

From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

Moli�re’s evil star, too, it was perhaps in part that brought him back to Paris, from Orleans.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

And, notwithstanding the better discipline maintained since the evil star of Randall had sunk beneath the horizon, not the slightest approach to regularity, in this respect, had been as yet made.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various