It was as if he did not care to be the bearer of evil tidings.

But I regret to have evil tidings to announce to you.

In these days a galloping rider carried only evil tidings.

I have evil tidings, lord,' he said standing before the King. '

Yet in two ways may a man come with evil tidings.

"Well," said Marcus, looking up, "what evil tidings have you now?"

On the fifth came evil tidings, not from the North but from the West.

In their case, the bearer of really evil tidings can't travel.

They came in great fear of their lives, for they bore evil tidings.

I am the bearer of unhappy news and evil tidings.