adverse fate
Example Sentences
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My dear Madam, there are chains which hold us as the cable holds the ship; and, in their sure restraint, we safely ride through all the howling blasts of adverse fate.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
How many sudden tempests have broken over his bent back, how much adverse fate has fallen on his head, on his house, on his country!
From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise
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
No individual boy expected that he would be killed, or meet with any other adverse fate.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander
Yet he resolved that what adverse fate got out of him, should be on terms that would cover him with more glory than ordinary success could possibly do.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
