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 Hannah More
He had stood before her, his shoulders bowed beneath his adverse fate, and had not dared to raise his eyes to hers.
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
But now my adverse fate took a sudden turn, and after so long a succession of cloudy prospects the sun broke out upon me.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
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 Elizabeth Pinchard
I will unroll before your eyes a scene, partly the result of an adverse fate, partly of a dark mystery, representing joy and also deep sorrow.
From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai
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