adverse fate

But adverse fate seemed at last to relent, and a light breeze sprung up from the southward.

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.

It requires, they say, all sorts of people to make a world; and I have often thought, in observing one of these miserable objects, that his or her's was the very lowest ebb to which a human being's prospects in life could be brought by adverse fate.

The game was up--no doubt of it--but the abb� was not one to bow under adverse fate and play the penitent.

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.