unlucky hour
Example Sentences
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If only nothing's struck in an unlucky hour.
From The Bishop and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
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 Bryde, Charles W. L.
What an unlucky hour he had had at Sir John Pringle's!
From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving
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
But it reach'd him indeed In an unlucky hour, and received little heed.
From Lucile by Meredith, Owen
