unlucky hour
Example Sentences
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In an unlucky hour her father endorsed for a friend, and to save his honor, was compelled to lose his property.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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
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 Mee, Arthur
As for me, up to now, I have never spoken in an unlucky hour, God preserve me!
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
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
