adverse fate
Example Sentences
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Dear Annie: What though thy lot has been to bear Much adverse fate, ’mid toil and care, Raised expectations crushed and dead, And hope’s triumphant visions fled?
From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah
The pity was that an adverse fate had denied him any benefit from his own foresight.
From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis
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.
She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
They had no alternative but to submit to their adverse fate, and in several detachments they were transported to their new homes.
From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne
