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 soon began to smile upon me.

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

There's no accounting for the way some things come about—and it's pretty hard to call the turn of the card when Dame Fortune deals the bank.

From The Night Operator by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

"Let Dame Fortune only deal me trumps," said I, "and I'll promise never 'to look into my neighbor's hand.'"

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

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 Mason, Eugene