adverse fate

Example Sentences

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But next day, after this small bounty and grateful success, adverse fate had prepared for me a graver alarm than I had ever experienced in my life of peril and hazard.

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred

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

He did not possess the boldness which disarms an adverse fate, nor that confidence in his own powers which smooths down wounded pride, and accounts even for failure.

From The Doctor's Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Meantime, the Greeks Sloping their shields, approach'd the walls of Troy,5 And Hector, by his adverse fate ensnared, Still stood exposed before the Scæan gate.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William