adverse fate
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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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
It was a terrible job;—perhaps the most difficult of all the difficult tasks which her adverse fate had imposed upon her.
From Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
But no, defiance had no hand in that, simply adverse fate.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
No individual boy expected that he would be killed, or meet with any other adverse fate.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell
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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