adverse fate

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But now my adverse fate took a sudden turn, and after so long a succession of cloudy prospects the sun broke out upon me.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

Dear Annie: What though thy lot has been to bear Much adverse fate, ’mid toil and care, Raised expectations crushed and dead, And hope’s triumphant visions fled?

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah

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

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

Mr. Gray looked at him, as at a fine subject which adverse fate was to snatch away from his experiments.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William