Dame Fortune
Example Sentences
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“What happened? Dame Fortune frowned. Intel must be well-positioned and ready when Dame Fortune smiles again.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
At the last of these operas, by another perverse joke of Dame Fortune, who seems to have so many laughs at my expense, I was introduced to the chaperon, "Mrs. Polhemus."
From The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford
Dejection seize his harrass’d mind, While struggling with dispair; Dame Fortune smiles and proves more kind, His spirits for to cheer.
From An Elogy to the Memory of the late Wm. Palgrave, Esq. with Other Pieces by James Parkerson
It should be the easiest thing in the world to present a picture of stoical disdain for Dame Fortune and her fantasies.
From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith
But such was the malice wherewith Dame Fortune pursued him, and such the shame and loss she set upon him, that he had nothing left to give to others, or to keep for himself.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
