frowns of fortune
Example Sentences
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While I was thus employed, I reflected with exultation upon the degree in which man is independent of the smiles and frowns of fortune.
From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin
Others took refuge there from the frowns of fortune and the rigour of unmerciful creditors.
From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt
Beside these they have a variety of poetic works, abounding rather with moral reflections and complaints of the frowns of fortune or of ill-requited love than with flights of fancy.
From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden
He has met the frowns of fortune like a gentleman—like a man.
From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade
I have, Providence be thanked, given each of them £5000, and that is laid in East India stock, sufficient to keep them genteelly, above the frowns of fortune, and free from the fear of want.
From The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana by Daniel Defoe
