frowns of fortune
Example Sentences
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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
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
If thou bear trifles so ill, how shalt thou endure the heavier frowns of fortune?
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
But the frowns of fortune lower, bonnie lassie, O!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
We are not easily affrighted by frowns of fortune.
From The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Grace Livingston Hill
