evil hour
Example Sentences
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But moving day, alas, draws on apace, as doth the evil hour when I'll have to take the shears to my sprawling collection in earnest.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2013
Thus in an evil hour France was bereft of one of her greatest physicists, the world of a genius, and Madame Curie If her life companion and husband.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2011
Who knows if there won't be many other excuses to put off the evil hour?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2010
In an evil hour for his own chances Joe Harley chose that worse counsel, and slank off in his familiar crouching fashion towards the opposite corner of the copse.
From Strange Stories by Grant Allen
In an evil hour, she had listened to the flattering tale of the deceiver, and now she was a miserable dependant on the will of Cross—his slave to do his bidding.
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe
