evil fortune
Example Sentences
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But evil fortune fell on him; he was forced to place his ward in the Brandenburg Dime Museum in Philadelphia, where she was first exhibited.
From Time Magazine Archive
His evil fortune stayed skulking behind the great curtains of the woods until after Gentleman Johnny had forced the Rebel army to evacuate Fort Ticonderoga.
From Time Magazine Archive
An evil fortune discovered to him that he could sell each of his rabbits, those bits of furry vermin, for a shilling or thereabouts in Nottingham; since which time the noble family subsisted by rabbits.
From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The forebodings of evil fortune were just as plainly shown.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
Nothing is learned from it of the poet's parentage, his education, his favourite places of residence, of his career, of his good or evil fortune.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
