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

"The little professor won eight hundred dollars from the proud Castilian last night—I hope Dame Fortune was as kind to you!"

From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch

Dame Fortune, I think, has our standards forsaken, For Tobago, they say, by Frenchmen is taken; Minorca's besieg'd—and as for Gibraltar, By Jove, if it's taken I'll take to the halter.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

Dame Fortune soon began to smile upon me.

From Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

And this is the wisdom of our Northmen who have well tamed Dame Fortune and have set their sure brand upon her.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey