adverse fate

Example Sentences

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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 Palacio Vald?s, Armando

Thus there seemed a great career opening before Balboa at the very moment when adverse fate was gathering darkly around him.

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles

Goldsmith struggled cheerfully with his adverse fate, and died.

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett

It was a terrible job;—perhaps the most difficult of all the difficult tasks which her adverse fate had imposed upon her.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony

She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred