evil star
Example Sentences
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But also have we discerned the evil star looming up that threatened cloud and wreck to its future years.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
Her prayers can shake and avert the threatenings of each evil star, however firmly fixed in the judgment heaven.
From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
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
I raised my eyes, and did not even feel startled, only darkly certain that Adelaide’s evil star was high in the heaven of her fate, when I saw, calmly regarding us, Sir Peter Le Marchant.
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
His evil star would have it that he showed his thumb one day to Pizarro, who could make nothing of it.
From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert R?ville