unlucky hour
Example Sentences
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What I dreaded was, that in some unlucky hour I, being at my grimiest and commonest, should lift up my eyes and see Estella looking in at one of the wooden windows of the forge.
From Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
It is easy to see that all courage has left thee, and it was an unlucky hour ye went out to the field.
From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
If only nothing's struck in an unlucky hour.
From The Bishop and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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 MacNutt, Francis Augustus
What an unlucky hour he had had at Sir John Pringle's!
From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving
