adverse fate

Example Sentences

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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

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

My lot has been to meet The bitter mixed with transient sweet; To struggle on, in toil and care, The tide of adverse fate to bear.

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah

His life apart from business was akin to his business life in that; reflection on what was best, just and honourable, and then his decision, which no adverse fate was ever afterwards to shake.

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

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

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