adverse fate
Example Sentences
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She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
But it was not in a boy like Desmond, young, strong, high spirited, tamely to fold his hands before adverse fate.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
But adverse fate seemed at last to relent, and a light breeze sprung up from the southward.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
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 Charles Morris
He had stood before her, his shoulders bowed beneath his adverse fate, and had not dared to raise his eyes to hers.
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
