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

Man runs the wild career of blind ambition, Plunges in vice, takes falsehood for his buoy, And when he feels the waves of ruin o'er him, Curses, in "good set terms," poor Lady Fortune.

From André by Moses, Montrose Jonas

As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down, and basked him in the sun, And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan