unlucky hour
Example Sentences
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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 MacNutt, Francis Augustus
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
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 Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
She was very beautiful, and, in an unlucky hour, he determined to marry her.
From Beulah by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
