adverse fate

Example Sentences

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My lot has been to meet The bitter mixed with transient sweet; To struggle on, in toil and care, The tide of adverse fate to bear.

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah

Phoebe dried her honest tears, and made haste with the packing, believing that Miss Tempest was leaving home for her own pleasure, and that she, Phoebe, was the only victim of adverse fate.

From Vixen, Volume III. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

My sister—yield thee to thy adverse fate; Think of thy father, think of Regulus; Has he not taught thee how to brave misfortune?

From The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts by More, Hannah

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