adverse fate

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Goldsmith struggled cheerfully with his adverse fate, and died.

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett

My dear Madam, there are chains which hold us as the cable holds the ship; and, in their sure restraint, we safely ride through all the howling blasts of adverse fate.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various

The game was up--no doubt of it--but the abb� was not one to bow under adverse fate and play the penitent.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

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

But next day, after this small bounty and grateful success, adverse fate had prepared for me a graver alarm than I had ever experienced in my life of peril and hazard.

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando