evil fortune
Example Sentences
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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
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
But you, Pierre, are going to be married before long, I trust, not to a Capulet, but to one of our own Montagues; and so Romeo's evil fortune will hardly be yours.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
“Make haste then,” said the innkeeper, “for the hour of evil fortune has sounded for your father.”
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de
"Why should I trouble you with news of one whose good or evil fortune cannot concern you?"
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
