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
The pity was that an adverse fate had denied him any benefit from his own foresight.
From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis
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.
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
Phoebe dried her honest tears, and made haste with the packing, believing that Miss Tempest was leaving home for her own pleasure, and that she, Phoebe, was the only victim of adverse fate.
From Vixen, Volume III. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
