frowns of fortune

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To death alone it is due that life is not a punishment, that, erect beneath the frowns of fortune, I can preserve my mind unshaken and master of itself.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

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 Hewatt, Alexander

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 Godwin, William

He has met the frowns of fortune like a gentleman—like a man.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

And those good offices interchanged between man and man, to which life owes many of its comforts in a less advanced state of society, and which protect individuals from the frowns of fortune, gradually disappear. 

From An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by Playfair, William