evil star
Example Sentences
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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
Yes, I was born under an evil star; just that!
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson
It was a grievous disappointment; my evil star, I thought, had not yet waned.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
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
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
