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Example sentences for "evil hour"

  • Summoned in an evil hour by Nicomedes to aid him and the Greek states of Asia Minor in their struggle against the Seleucidæ, they soon established him on the throne of Bithynia.

  • When Massalia was hard pressed by two Gaulish nations, she summoned, in an evil hour, Rome to her aid.

  • In an evil hour, he was transplanted from his "native heath" to the conservatory of the aristocracy.

  • In an evil hour, she thrust aside Lamartine, to make room for Louis Napoleon.

  • In an evil hour 'Twas crime that brought me hither, and of crime The victim I depart.

  • In evil hour I gave consent; and, shrouded In sable weeds of mourning, she surveyed Her father's obsequies.

  • I would fain not be meaner than my equal, So in an evil hour I let myself Be tempted to that measure.

  • Alas for that Royal Consort, humane and just, whose dying voice was given to assuage the temper of that ministerial despatch, by which, in an evil hour, England was made to strike hands with Rebel Slavery!

  • But his satisfaction is cut short by those who had taken and bound his guest, and the king tells them they have come in an evil hour, for they shall all be killed and confounded.

  • Surely, sir knight," she says, "I fear you have come in an evil hour.

  • Alas," said she, "in what an evil hour have I witnessed my pride and presumption!

  • Yes, in an evil hour I thought of love; woe is me that I ever learned it, for the experience has been bitter.

  • In an evil hour he wrote a little book entitled La cordonnière de Loudun, in which he attacked Richelieu, and aroused the undying hatred of the great Cardinal.

  • Twas thus Orlando came where Charles was tented In evil hour, and soon the deed repented.

  • I called attention to the fact that, unacquainted with the difficult and delicate science of Textual Criticism, the Revisionists had, in an evil hour, surrendered themselves to Dr.

  • See how these two Iseults had met him in an evil hour, and to both had he broken faith!

  • I was born in an evil hour; and, to save thee from my influence, I must conceal my love.

  • In an evil hour I abandoned my former pursuits and amusements for it; in one morning spent at Joey's there was more real pleasure than in .


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    amidst the; blackish brown; each regiment; evil case; evil conscience; evil deed; evil dream; evil effects; evil example; evil hour; evil omen; evil spirit; evil spirits; evil spoken; evil thing; evil things; evil will; large dose; moderate heat; money and; pronounced like; reefed topsails; small block; thin wood; took possession; you care