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

Little did hard-working Widow Moore realize when Dame Fortune was good to her!

From Rockhaven by Munn, Charles Clark

For though you give a Richardson or Hayward, Dame Fortune still will be a trifle wayward; Though one was sorely missed, and surely no man Can tell where they'd have been if they'd had Lohmann.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 by Various

And since Dame Fortune looked upon him with a frowning countenance, there was none to welcome him with a smiling face.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

Dame Fortune soon began to smile upon me.

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