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

How treacherous Dame Fortune cast on Simplicissimus a friendly glance Chap. xxii.:

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von

Sooner or later old Dame Fortune turns round her wheel and up comes her eldest daughter and pins your butterfly to the earth with the sharp-pointed pin of adversity.

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard

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

And since Dame Fortune looked upon him with a frowning countenance, there was none to welcome him with a smiling face.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene