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
We have already seen how, in an evil hour for the Canadians, a party of British troops took possession of Detroit, towards the close of the year 1760.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
Accordingly, in an evil hour they set about removing foundations, and did so much structural mischief that in the end it became necessary to proceed against them for damages.
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
