unlucky hour
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Ah, Saladin, St. George is in this very room, Thou'rt come this unlucky hour to seek thy fatal doom.
From The Peace Egg and Other tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
If only nothing's struck in an unlucky hour.
From The Bishop and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
He can only suggest that they should shut the child up in a tower till the unlucky hour be past, after which his fate will have no more power over him.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
True it is, Nidud! what has been told to thee, that Volund and I in the isle together sat, in an unlucky hour: would it had never been!
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
In the year 1522 or 1523 this same tyrant invaded the most delightful province of Nicaragua to subjugate it; it was an unlucky hour when he entered it.
From Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings by Francis Augustus MacNutt
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