adverse fate
Example Sentences
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Dear Annie: What though thy lot has been to bear Much adverse fate, ’mid toil and care, Raised expectations crushed and dead, And hope’s triumphant visions fled?
From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah
Thus there seemed a great career opening before Balboa at the very moment when adverse fate was gathering darkly around him.
From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles
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 Beyerlein, Franz
In vain has Armstrong striven against this adverse fate; in vain made endeavours to avert it.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
Yet he resolved that what adverse fate got out of him, should be on terms that would cover him with more glory than ordinary success could possibly do.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
