evil star

Example Sentences

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Alas, my critique, under what evil star wert thou born!

From My Reminiscences by Hesh, Sasi Kumar

"I was born, I suppose, under an evil star; for nothing prospers with me."

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

My third experience of a "pig-headed" master mariner, followed very quickly—so quickly, that I began to think some evil star attended my fortunes, or rather misfortunes.

From "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 by Becke, Louis

In fact, his evil star began to get into the ascendant.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

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