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
There's no accounting for the way some things come about—and it's pretty hard to call the turn of the card when Dame Fortune deals the bank.
From The Night Operator by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
For though you give a Richardson or Hayward, Dame Fortune still will be a trifle wayward; Though one was sorely missed, and surely no man Can tell where they'd have been if they'd had Lohmann.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 by Various
Many stories are related to explain this discovery, but as they are all more pleasing than convincing, it seems best to credit Dame Fortune with this valuable assistant to the glazier.
From Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
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 James Parkerson
