Lady Fortune

Example Sentences

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He seems to evoke a world where if Lady Fortune forsakes you, so will your friends.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2013

A lesson to be learned: Lady Fortune is as fickle as they come.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

For this is not a happy man, but an embittered one, and ready to "rail on Lady Fortune in good set terms."

From A Day with the Poet Burns by Anonymous

"My Lady Fortune," asked Ian, "what is up your sleeve?"

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

Ameinias’s cook has prepared a noble supper—anchovies and tunny—will you not join the other officers and drink a cup to Tychē, Lady Fortune, that she prosper us in the morning?”

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns