evil star

Example Sentences

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

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

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

In fact, his evil star began to get into the ascendant.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

But he was born under an evil star, which counteracted all the gifts of fortune, and turned them into a curse.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

But my evil star was still above the horizon.

From In Kings' Byways by Weyman, Stanley John