Dame Fortune
Example Sentences
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“What happened? Dame Fortune frowned. Intel must be well-positioned and ready when Dame Fortune smiles again.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2023
Dejection seize his harrass’d mind, While struggling with dispair; Dame Fortune smiles and proves more kind, His spirits for to cheer.
From An Elogy to the Memory of the late Wm. Palgrave, Esq. with Other Pieces by Parkerson, James
For men like himself who would do and dare Dame Fortune had much in store.
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean
But such was the malice wherewith Dame Fortune pursued him, and such the shame and loss she set upon him, that he had nothing left to give to others, or to keep for himself.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
He was no sooner in Aiken than Dame Fortune ceased minding the other small boy, and turned her petulant eyes upon Larkin.
From It, and Other Stories by Morris, Gouverneur
