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

Sooner or later old Dame Fortune turns round her wheel and up comes her eldest daughter and pins your butterfly to the earth with the sharp-pointed pin of adversity.

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard

The two young men looked at each other in silence, startled by the coincidence, and wondering whether at last Dame Fortune was about to smile upon them.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues

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

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

The young man who is ambitious, upon whom Dame Fortune is already turning a dawning smile, should pause and think about this matter.

From The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms by Cone, John A.