Dame Fortune

Example Sentences

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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

Rogers raved at Addicks and especially at Whitney, but he was too old a student of men, and the monkeys Dame Fortune makes of them, to sulk over the facts he could not remedy.

From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William

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

I hold no title-deed To one small acre, yet have all I need, And should Dame Fortune proffer me her store I could not linger wistful, at her door.

From The Nation Behind Prison Bars by Herr, George L. (George Lewis)

Why, man," said he, "Dame Fortune hath us in her good books for a surety.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele