frowns of fortune
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We are not easily affrighted by frowns of fortune.
From The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Hill, Grace Livingston
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
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
No frowns of fortune has my soul to dread.
From Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Wheatley, Phillis
The Afgh�n noble, whilom Governor of M�lw�, after some wanderings, threw himself on the mercy of Akbar, and, to use the phrase of the chronicler, 'sought a refuge from the frowns of fortune.'
From Rulers of India: Akbar by Malleson, George Bruce
