Lady Fortune

Example Sentences

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He seems to evoke a world where if Lady Fortune forsakes you, so will your friends.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2013

A lesson to be learned: Lady Fortune is as fickle as they come.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

As I do live by food, I met a fool; Who laid him down and basked him in the sun, And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.

Man runs the wild career of blind ambition, Plunges in vice, takes falsehood for his buoy, And when he feels the waves of ruin o'er him, Curses, in "good set terms," poor Lady Fortune.

From André by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Faith, Sir, I am directed to you by Lady Fortune with a peece of plate.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)