Dame Fortune

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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

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

Blakeney vowed that she was so ravishing that she had put Dame Fortune to flight.

From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

"We're wealthy fowk now, tak' oor place wi' the best," Said the heid o' the Allans, one Dougal, A man whom Dame Fortune had royally blest, Of sensible habits, and frugal— Uncommonly frugal.

From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean

"Let Dame Fortune only deal me trumps," said I, "and I'll promise never 'to look into my neighbor's hand.'"

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James