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 of weakness the initiated betrays the secret, and then all is gone.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
It was an evil hour for the ex-magistrate when he received this information, for as he had not had any letters from Mohilev lately, he had sent no money, but used the funds for himself.
From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Karl Emil Franzos
