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

And still more to make up for these drawbacks vexatious, Dame Fortune has been on the whole, pretty gracious.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

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 Ford, Paul Leicester

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

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

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