evil hour
Example Sentences
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But moving day, alas, draws on apace, as doth the evil hour when I'll have to take the shears to my sprawling collection in earnest.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2013
Thus in an evil hour France was bereft of one of her greatest physicists, the world of a genius, and Madame Curie If her life companion and husband.
From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2011
Who knows if there won't be many other excuses to put off the evil hour?
From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2010
Accordingly, in an evil hour, they proceeded further to erase the word ἀγαθέ from their copies.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
In an evil hour the Buccaneer put himself entirely in the hands of this physician, who when he entered the sick man's room, began to make great alterations both in medicine and diet.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard
