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, he was transplanted from his "native heath" to the conservatory of the aristocracy.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
Thus has a work intended for the honor of the city, become, in an evil hour, the monument of its shame!
From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by B. M. Norman
