adverse fate
Example Sentences
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No individual boy expected that he would be killed, or meet with any other adverse fate.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell
He may have been of high estate, He may have been a simple yeoman, Undaunted by an adverse fate, Brave was he as the bravest Roman.
From Memorial Day and Other Verse by Helen Leah Reed
Seldom has an undertaking been more remorselessly dogged by an adverse fate than that of Anson.
From Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by H. W. Household
Say, Ellen, can you willingly encounter those storms of adverse fate, which may assail, and, perhaps, make me an exile from my native country for ever?
From Mystery and Confidence (Vol. 1 of 3) A Tale by Elizabeth Pinchard
In reality the leaders of world-revolution have not been "Under Men," victims of oppression or of adverse fate, nor could they be ranged in this category on account of physical or mental inferiority.
From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta H. Webster
