I fear, Mr. Spotswoode, that an unkind fate sat in at your game.
Never, he thought, had an unkind fate played so cruel a joke upon a human being.
He mulled the consequences of cruel chance and unkind fate, of oppor- tunities lost and games played, and waited patiently for nightfall.
There are at least four towns here in our corner of New Hampshire that have suffered this unkind fate, and all of them have downtowns that are struggling.
But after bewailing the unkind fate that had separated them, there didn't seem to be too much to say.
It worked but suffered the unkind fate of not being new.
The idea that such an unkind fate had been visited on anyone, particularly fellow Starfleet personnel, grated on him.
The way he said it, it was as if the four of them were friends, all pulling together against an unkind fate.
Her anger was at the same unkind fate that had plagued her all her life.
It had been an act of unkind fate that had brought her parents here.