adverse fate

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Meantime, the Greeks Sloping their shields, approach'd the walls of Troy,5 And Hector, by his adverse fate ensnared, Still stood exposed before the Scæan gate.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

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

Yet he resolved that what adverse fate got out of him, should be on terms that would cover him with more glory than ordinary success could possibly do.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

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

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