evil star

Example Sentences

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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

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 Gozzi, Count Carlo

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

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 Ober, Frederick Albion

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 R?ville, Albert