adverse fate
Example Sentences
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Seldom has an undertaking been more remorselessly dogged by an adverse fate than that of Anson.
From Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by Household, H. W.
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 Headley, Joel Tyler
No individual boy expected that he would be killed, or meet with any other adverse fate.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander
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.
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
