unlucky hour

Example Sentences

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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

In the year 1522 or 1523 this same tyrant invaded the most delightful province of Nicaragua to subjugate it; it was an unlucky hour when he entered it.

From Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings by MacNutt, Francis Augustus

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

I felt I had entered Meshed in an unlucky hour, and determined to leave it.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

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