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

She was the plaything of a relentlessly adverse fate.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred

A fortnight had passed, and he defied his aunt, Monsieur Leroy, the whole world, an adverse fate, and the powers of evil.

From Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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

But now my adverse fate took a sudden turn, and after so long a succession of cloudy prospects the sun broke out upon me.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William