evil star
Example Sentences
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Give me the man "Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star."
From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett
He was born under an evil star, he said, and would not be free of its spell until he had passed through a period of servitude.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith
In fact, his evil star began to get into the ascendant.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
She had been the evil star of his house.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann
But he began to fear his evil star had risen above the horizon, and he was downcast, if not dispirited, while in proportion as he was depressed rose the spirits of the rancorous old governor.
From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Ober, Frederick Albion
