adverse fate
Example Sentences
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But no, defiance had no hand in that, simply adverse fate.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
Instead of sinking under the redoubled blows of an adverse fate, the little Russian rebounded like a rubber ball.
From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 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 William MacGillivray
Mr. Gray looked at him, as at a fine subject which adverse fate was to snatch away from his experiments.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson
