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

Why, man," said he, "Dame Fortune hath us in her good books for a surety.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

Dame Fortune, I think, has our standards forsaken, For Tobago, they say, by Frenchmen is taken; Minorca's besieg'd—and as for Gibraltar, By Jove, if it's taken I'll take to the halter.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

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

Dame Fortune plays me many a prank— When she is kind, oh! how I go it!

From Hoosier Lyrics by Field, Eugene