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Example sentences for "similar fate"

  • A servant of Mr. Cassidy, and another of Mr. Evans, met a similar fate.

  • Among savages, the blanket has sometimes slain more than the sword: it destroyed the Indian of North America, and even threatened the New Zealander with a similar fate.

  • Watts then expected a similar fate; he, however, reached Hobart Town, and was thence forwarded to Sydney, where he died of his wounds.

  • One of the sailors, who had ventured with some others into the shallow water, was seized and devoured by one of these monsters; the rest would, no doubt, have shared a similar fate if they had not immediately hastened on board again.

  • The enemy likewise threw in among his men six bleeding heads of our fellow soldiers, crying out that those were the heads of Malinche, Alvarado, and other officers, and that he and his men would share a similar fate.

  • With him and Stoflet, who suffered a similar fate, the war of La Vendée terminated.

  • The motion was negatived, and other attempts to interfere with the management of the king's revenue met with a similar fate.

  • A similar motion, urged by the eloquence of Mr. Grattan in the commons, met with a similar fate.

  • The British (and some Hessian troops) were defeated at Thiel on the Waal; Alvinzi met with a similar fate at Pondern, and was compelled to retreat into Westphalia.

  • The king was beheaded in this manner in the January of 1793, and the queen shared a similar fate in the ensuing October.

  • On the left the Rangers had met with a similar fate at the hands of the machine-gunners in Dewdrop Trench, before whose fire they had been stopped dead with ghastly loss immediately they rose from the assembly trench.

  • On the right the Scottish and Kensingtons met with a similar fate.

  • Robert was hanged in chains on the top of Norwich Castle, whilst his brother William suffered a similar fate on the top of Wymondham Steeple.

  • Philip acceded to the request and another Armada was got ready; but the fleet had scarcely put to sea before it suffered a similar fate to the Armada of 1588 and was shattered by a storm (Dec.

  • His head, together with those of two others who had that day suffered a similar fate, was set up on London Bridge.

  • Being apprehensive of a similar fate, the garrison of Arauco abandoned that place.

  • Elmsley having the slightest power to interfere, for he knew that any attempt at remonstrance would only be to provoke a similar fate, and thus the party passed on, stripping every soldier to the skin.

  • On that evening, upon their return home, they were warned that they would share a similar fate in the event they attended the funeral.

  • If Judge Combs deserved death, we may well ask how many of the other participants in this feud ought to have shared a similar fate at the hands of the law?

  • I may emulate the example of Mrs. Lot, but with the certainty that a similar fate to hers does not await me.

  • Last week, by the merest fluke, I rescued my best boots from a similar fate.

  • Experience here has taught me that our own delicacies meet with a similar fate at the hands of my present fellow countrymen.

  • In 1533 the Benedictine, Henry Forest, was condemned to death for heresy; in the following year a priest and a layman met a similar fate, and before the death of James V.

  • John Rogers was committed to the flames in Smithfield, Bishop Hooper in Gloucester, Taylor in Suffolk, Saunders in Coventry, and before the year had elapsed about seventy prisoners had met a similar fate.

  • The third husband also met a similar fate to the first.

  • So the three older brothers who were unkind to their baby brother met a similar fate to that of their selfish parents.

  • The second stockade stood their charge a little longer than did the first, but finally this gave way, and the leaders pushed on through, only to fall into the second ditch and meet a similar fate to those in the first.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    directed against; faint flush; general councils; human understanding; inverted cone; measuring time; more elaborate; seven bells; similar circumstances; similar effect; similar kind; similar nature; similar origin; similar position; similar purpose; similar reason; similar situations; similar spirit; similar story; similar type; similar view; similar work; suffering from; tiger among; whilst the; woman like