adverse fate

Example Sentences

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Seldom has an undertaking been more remorselessly dogged by an adverse fate than that of Anson.

From Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by Household, H. W.

I will unroll before your eyes a scene, partly the result of an adverse fate, partly of a dark mystery, representing joy and also deep sorrow.

From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Jókai, Mór

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

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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