adverse fate

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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

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

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

She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred

My sister—yield thee to thy adverse fate; Think of thy father, think of Regulus; Has he not taught thee how to brave misfortune?

From The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts by More, Hannah