unlucky hour
Example Sentences
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Alas, the unlucky hour when this knight-errant came to my house!
From The Junior Classics — Volume 4 by William Patten
If only nothing's struck in an unlucky hour.
From The Bishop and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
We had whips of vegetables from my garden, until Braun in an unlucky hour gave Ellison permission to turn a few cows into his paddock.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde
I departed in an unlucky hour, leaving under the care of my journeymen my castle and all my effects; but all the way I could not refrain from sighing and weeping.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
In an unlucky hour for Shum she met him.
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray
