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
This compact was fairly observed by the Canadian Government; but in an evil hour they made this part of their duty over to contractors, and we know what contractors are, all the world over.
From Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
We have already seen how, in an evil hour for the Canadians, a party of British troops took possession of Detroit, towards the close of the year 1760.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
