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
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 E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
Those who have the patience to read the remaining chapters of my insipid Memoirs, will admit that the evil star of these untoward circumstances never ceased to plague me.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
But my evil star was still above the horizon.
From In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman
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
