adverse fate
Example Sentences
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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 Armando Palacio Vald?s
But it was not in a boy like Desmond, young, strong, high spirited, tamely to fold his hands before adverse fate.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
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
Phoebe dried her honest tears, and made haste with the packing, believing that Miss Tempest was leaving home for her own pleasure, and that she, Phoebe, was the only victim of adverse fate.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
