adverse fate
Example Sentences
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Goldsmith struggled cheerfully with his adverse fate, and died.
From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett
In reality the leaders of world-revolution have not been "Under Men," victims of oppression or of adverse fate, nor could they be ranged in this category on account of physical or mental inferiority.
From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.
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
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
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 MacGillivray, William
