adverse fate

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In reality the leaders of world-revolution have not been "Under Men," victims of oppression or of adverse fate, nor could they be ranged in this category on account of physical or mental inferiority.

From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.

The pity was that an adverse fate had denied him any benefit from his own foresight.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis

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

I confined myself to the examination of those who may be properly designated the helpless victims of adverse fate.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

Thus there seemed a great career opening before Balboa at the very moment when adverse fate was gathering darkly around him.

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles