adverse fate

Example Sentences

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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)

What adverse fate had drifted her into the service of old Long Potter I 'm sure I don't know, for she had bewitching ways, and a gentle voice that won all hearts.

From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Gaunt, Mary

But adverse fate seemed at last to relent, and a light breeze sprung up from the southward.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

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

No individual boy expected that he would be killed, or meet with any other adverse fate.

From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander