adverse fate

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My lot has been to meet The bitter mixed with transient sweet; To struggle on, in toil and care, The tide of adverse fate to bear.

From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah

Instead of sinking under the redoubled blows of an adverse fate, the little Russian rebounded like a rubber ball.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Thus there seemed a great career opening before Balboa at the very moment when adverse fate was gathering darkly around him.

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles

But now my adverse fate took a sudden turn, and after so long a succession of cloudy prospects the sun broke out upon me.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

I confined myself to the examination of those who may be properly designated the helpless victims of adverse fate.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)