the evil hour

But emergency vaccination is only putting off the evil hour for healthy animals.

All you're doing is putting off the evil hour.'

Putting off the evil hour, she suspected.

Anyway I lay there, in a mood of quiet celebration, for however long it was, until the evil hour - and the orderlies.

I trust that its beatings may be stilled before my eyes behold the evil hour."

Why anticipate the evil hour?

Willing therefore to delay the evil hour, she resolved to wait till her sister's health were more secure, before she appointed it.

Faces like those faces that glare with intolerable strangeness upon the sleeper in the evil hours of his dreams.

They are all before me, just as they were in the evil hour when I went among them for the first time, with my trembling hand in Mr. Quinion's.

The Idol House of Astarte - first published in Volume 101, Number 6 on June 9 under the title The Solving Six and the Evil Hour.

Five days later there were no further traces of resistance, for the pool had almost dried, and everyone was praising the Mothers wisdom for filling and hiding away many bags of water against the evil hour.

And all the time he knew that he was doing these things in a completely futile effort to avert the evil hour when in the hollow, the sharp-thinking night he must face his memories, and his God.

You know, I thought, in the evil hour when I took this job-" He rose to his feet, hitching his belt to balance the weight of the pistol on the right against the camera-binoculars on the left, and changed the sub-ject abruptly.