evil star

Example Sentences

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Don't you think, after all, it is tempting our evil star to rent those fields from the landlord?”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

He was known as Ez-Zogoiby, "the Unlucky;" and he was ever lamenting his evil star, against which he felt it was useless to struggle.

From The Moors in Spain by Lane-Poole, Stanley

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

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 Becke, Louis

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

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