adverse fate

Example Sentences

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My lot has been to meet The bitter mixed with transient sweet; To struggle on, in toil and care, The tide of adverse fate to bear.

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

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

His life apart from business was akin to his business life in that; reflection on what was best, just and honourable, and then his decision, which no adverse fate was ever afterwards to shake.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William

But adverse fate seemed at last to relent, and a light breeze sprung up from the southward.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

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