adverse fate
Example Sentences
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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
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
She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
Meantime, the Greeks Sloping their shields, approach'd the walls of Troy,5 And Hector, by his adverse fate ensnared, Still stood exposed before the Scæan gate.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper
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 Martha Everts Holden
