evil star
Example Sentences
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Tell, in the poet's own words, what this "evil star" was.
From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Ministry of Education
But my evil star was still above the horizon.
From In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman
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 Frederick Albion Ober
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 Albert R?ville
It was a grievous disappointment; my evil star, I thought, had not yet waned.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
