Was the liberation of a kingdom, the deliverance of a nation from servitude, the happiness of a whole people, to weigh in the balance against the fates of a natural daughter of Don John of Austria and a soldier of fortune turned pastry-cook?
I had no idea that it was one of the special things that the Fates had in store for me: that for a whole year of my life, indeed, I was to do little else.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; / It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
The fates but only spin the coarser clue; / The finest of the wool is left for you.
To have heard the voice / Of Godhead in the winds and in the seas, / To have known him in the circling of the suns, / And in the changeful fates and lives of men.
The sorrowfulest of fatesis to have liberty without deserving it.
Now ourfates from unmomentous things / May rise like rivers out of little springs.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, / That our devices still are overthrown; / Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
But now our fates from unmomentous things / May rise like rivers out of little springs.
Our men, on Thursday, patrolled in different directions--alert for a second encounter, if the fates were propitious.
With undiminished fury the bombardment proceeded, battering down walls and gables, and filling hearts with a desire, a longing for vengeance, to be duly indulged when the fates were propitious.
Scarcely had he returned to the village, when the family ties once more asserted their claims, and the manifold and interlaced fates and fortunes of the villagers forced themselves upon his interest and sympathy.
Let me recall to you--but the task must be brief--the odd and wayward fates of my youth, and the misfortunes of my manhood.
The Fates denounce, the Furies chase The wretch who lies in Reason's face.
Grief stopped his answer to the charge; but in his wise mind he knew Carlo to have surveyed things justly; and that the Fates are within us.
Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown.
Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.
When Meleager was born, his mother saw in a vision the three Fates spinning the thread of her child's life; and she heard them foretell that he would live until the brand then burning on the hearth should be consumed.
Beside Pluto's throne sit the three Fates (also called Parcae), those deathless sisters who hold the threads of life and death in their hands.
For a time all went well; but the inevitable hour came when the Fates decreed that Admetus's life was ended, and that he must go the way of all mortals unless some one would die in his stead.
After two months, the Fates brought the pair together, and Ferdinand began to take his meals at Valentia's pension.
Let my house fall about my head, let my household gods be scattered abroad, let the Fates with their serpent hair render desolate my hearth; but do not rob me of my verse.
Far above all I rule, untouched by fate, And yet thefates I know.
She was a responsible person in her father's house at all times; but the fatesof men had never, perhaps, been hung round her neck before.
I mean that our dear Prefect has the fatesof all our young daughters in his hands.
I find the country insupportable myself, but you see, as the fates have preserved to us this rat-infested ruin, we must make the best of it.
It seemed necessary to convince his uncle that he was not talking nonsense, that the fates had really allowed him a few minutes' talk with Hélène.
As the Fates would have it, however, that battle was never to be fought, save on paper in the Admiral's cabin of the old Defence.
The Fates were kind, for that mask of luminous mist (though it interfered considerably with the effectiveness of the "P.
From autumn flowers let hope and faith be known; Learn from the columbine to live alone, To deck whatever spot the Fates provide With graces worthy of the garden's pride, And to deserve each gift that is denied.
The caldron simmers, and so great is the fire that we expect it soon to boil over, and new fates appear for Europe.
If the same star our fatestogether bind, Why are we thus divided, mind from mind?
Thus may the cloudy fates unroll'd Retrace the starry circles old, And the recurrent heavens decree A Periclean dynasty.
Slight traces of grouping appear here and there; but, on the whole, we have a set of miscellaneous aphorisms turning on the great contrast, and setting in various lights the characters and fates of the righteous and the wicked.
The fates must intervene and rescue his reason or else— There was a blessed sound—the announcing of dinner.
The Fates were good to her, though, for Aunt Mary forgot the lamp in her disgust over the appearance of the handle.
He believed in a freedom of the soul in a preexistent state where a choice was made between good and evil, but he believed that, after that antemundane decision had been made, the fates determined men's acts and lives irreversibly.
Thy brother indeed escaped from the fates of the sea; but the storm-wind carried him to the land where Aegisthus dwelt.
Home will we take him without hurt, but what things may befall him there, we know not; these shall be as the Fates spun his thread.
Fates have ordered that he should reach it, may he come alone, all his comrades lost, and come to find sore trouble in his house!
However, the fates for the moment seemed to have borrowed a leaf from Langham's book, and did not apparently know their own minds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
