unlucky hour
Example Sentences
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In an unlucky hour I see the village elder, Antip Syedelnikov, coming out of the tavern.
From The Witch and other stories by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
The wife got the samovar—she was going to give the old fellow a cup of tea, and in an unlucky hour she set the samovar in the entrance.
From The Witch and other stories by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
But in an unlucky hour he undertook to feed ten Irish kings and their armies for three weeks anend on three cows.
From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
It is open to the Judge of the Admiralty Court, whom the noble lord, twelve or thirteen years ago, prevailed on us, in an unlucky hour, to exclude.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
But it reach'd him indeed In an unlucky hour, and received little heed.
From Lucile by Meredith, Owen
