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

Dame Fortune, that inconstant jade, Can smile when least expected, And those who languish in the shade, Need never be dejected.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

Why, man," said he, "Dame Fortune hath us in her good books for a surety.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

Good lack! good lack! how once Dame Fortune did frown!

From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by Colman, George

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 Parkerson, James