evil fortune
Example Sentences
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But evil fortune fell on him; he was forced to place his ward in the Brandenburg Dime Museum in Philadelphia, where she was first exhibited.
From Time Magazine Archive
His evil fortune stayed skulking behind the great curtains of the woods until after Gentleman Johnny had forced the Rebel army to evacuate Fort Ticonderoga.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sage answered and said unto him at once: "You are better prepared for evil fortune than any nobleman of-282- Italy."
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Villani, Giovanni
We met good and evil fortune on the Atlantic, and Robert perversely chose the latter.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
The first-foot stamps the "luck" of the house—the good fortune or the evil fortune of its inmates throughout the year!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
