bow to fate

Example Sentences

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Flaminia, assailed by Iacinto, makes up her mind to bow to fate, and accepts with a good grace the love it is no longer in her power to fly.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

Every thing is kismet, destiny; and a man, whatever his inclinations, must bow to fate.

From Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia by Mackie, John Milton

And Byron bow to fate resigned,— Undying as the fabled Jew, Harold's dark spirit stays behind!

From Poems by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

For her sake he must bow to fate.

From The Mad King by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Not for an instant did he bow to fate: all shackled as he was, his legs engarlanded in heavy chains—which he called his garters—he tempered his merriment with the meditation of escape.

From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles