adverse fate

Example Sentences

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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)

I confined myself to the examination of those who may be properly designated the helpless victims of adverse fate.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

In reality the leaders of world-revolution have not been "Under Men," victims of oppression or of adverse fate, nor could they be ranged in this category on account of physical or mental inferiority.

From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.

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

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