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 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.
"We're wealthy fowk now, tak' oor place wi' the best," Said the heid o' the Allans, one Dougal, A man whom Dame Fortune had royally blest, Of sensible habits, and frugal— Uncommonly frugal.
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean
How treacherous Dame Fortune cast on Simplicissimus a friendly glance Chap. xxii.:
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
