adverse fate

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What adverse fate had drifted her into the service of old Long Potter I 'm sure I don't know, for she had bewitching ways, and a gentle voice that won all hearts.

From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Gaunt, Mary

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.

Mr. Gray looked at him, as at a fine subject which adverse fate was to snatch away from his experiments.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William

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 Beyerlein, Franz

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.