Dame Fortune

Example Sentences

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“What happened? Dame Fortune frowned. Intel must be well-positioned and ready when Dame Fortune smiles again.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2023

There are others with whom Dame Fortune plays many an exciting game, and to these adventure becomes as the very breath of life.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

Dame Fortune plays me many a prank— When she is kind, oh! how I go it!

From Hoosier Lyrics by Field, Eugene

How treacherous Dame Fortune cast on Simplicissimus a friendly glance Chap. xxii.:

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von

Dejection seize his harrass’d mind,    While struggling with dispair; Dame Fortune smiles and proves more kind,    His spirits for to cheer.

From An Elogy to the Memory of the late Wm. Palgrave, Esq. with Other Pieces by Parkerson, James