adverse fate
Example Sentences
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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
The pity was that an adverse fate had denied him any benefit from his own foresight.
From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis
My dear Madam, there are chains which hold us as the cable holds the ship; and, in their sure restraint, we safely ride through all the howling blasts of adverse fate.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
Say, Ellen, can you willingly encounter those storms of adverse fate, which may assail, and, perhaps, make me an exile from my native country for ever?
From Mystery and Confidence (Vol. 1 of 3) A Tale by Pinchard, Elizabeth
But next day, after this small bounty and grateful success, adverse fate had prepared for me a graver alarm than I had ever experienced in my life of peril and hazard.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
