adverse fate

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The game was up--no doubt of it--but the abb� was not one to bow under adverse fate and play the penitent.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

The pity was that an adverse fate had denied him any benefit from his own foresight.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis

But no, defiance had no hand in that, simply adverse fate.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

Goldsmith struggled cheerfully with his adverse fate, and died.

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett

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