evil star
Example Sentences
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Molière's evil star, too, it was perhaps in part that brought him back to Paris, from Orleans.
From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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 Frederick Albion Ober
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
Those who have the patience to read the remaining chapters of my insipid Memoirs, will admit that the evil star of these untoward circumstances never ceased to plague me.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
The evil star of my destiny had got in the ascendant and shot down its sparks upon me, enkindling in me a most singular but at the same time a most pernicious passion.
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
