adverse fate

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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

What are poverty and adverse fate and mocking hopes and disappointed ambition to the soul which is only journeying through an unfriendly world to a heritage that cannot fail?

From A String of Amber Beads by Holden, Martha Everts

Dear Annie: What though thy lot has been to bear Much adverse fate, ’mid toil and care, Raised expectations crushed and dead, And hope’s triumphant visions fled?

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah

Say, Ellen, can you willingly encounter those storms of adverse fate, which may assail, and, perhaps, make me an exile from my native country for ever?

From Mystery and Confidence (Vol. 1 of 3) A Tale by Pinchard, Elizabeth

Phoebe dried her honest tears, and made haste with the packing, believing that Miss Tempest was leaving home for her own pleasure, and that she, Phoebe, was the only victim of adverse fate.

From Vixen, Volume III. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)