adverse fate
Example Sentences
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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
It was a terrible job;—perhaps the most difficult of all the difficult tasks which her adverse fate had imposed upon her.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony
My sister—yield thee to thy adverse fate; Think of thy father, think of Regulus; Has he not taught thee how to brave misfortune?
From The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts by More, Hannah
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)
In reality the leaders of world-revolution have not been "Under Men," victims of oppression or of adverse fate, nor could they be ranged in this category on account of physical or mental inferiority.
From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.
