adverse fate
Example Sentences
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In vain has Armstrong striven against this adverse fate; in vain made endeavours to avert it.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
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
The pity was that an adverse fate had denied him any benefit from his own foresight.
From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis
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.
She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
