adverse fate

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Thus there seemed a great career opening before Balboa at the very moment when adverse fate was gathering darkly around him.

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles

He had stood before her, his shoulders bowed beneath his adverse fate, and had not dared to raise his eyes to hers.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz

But adverse fate seemed at last to relent, and a light breeze sprung up from the southward.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

The game was up--no doubt of it--but the abb� was not one to bow under adverse fate and play the penitent.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

Seldom has an undertaking been more remorselessly dogged by an adverse fate than that of Anson.

From Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by Household, H. W.