evil star

Example Sentences

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So much the worse for him, if his evil star is in opposition to yours.”

From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

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 Wilkinson, William Cleaver

But he was born under an evil star, which counteracted all the gifts of fortune, and turned them into a curse.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

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

The powers of darkness, it seems, are to be defeated; the evil star, it seems, has set and the star of hope arisen.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall