adverse fate
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She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
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 Nesta H. Webster
In vain has Armstrong striven against this adverse fate; in vain made endeavours to avert it.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
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 Anthony Trollope
Yet he resolved that what adverse fate got out of him, should be on terms that would cover him with more glory than ordinary success could possibly do.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
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