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And the sort of Goddess which the Fates held out to me was contained in the Old Religion.
Atropos is the name of one of the Fates, mythical beings who controlled the destinies of humans.
The three Fates, or Moirai, were the offspring of Zeus and the Titan Themis.
To the Greeks, your destiny was in the hands of the Fates, three heartless old women.
The witches generally represent some version of the Fates and make Macbeth believe that life is preordained.
The Fates of the Apostles, 122 lines, is a versified martyrology describing the mission and death of each of the Twelve Apostles.
Fates of these early colonists, and their relationships to modern humans, are still subject to debate.
Two-oh-eighteen might bring us very Different luck than we've had lately — Fates improving bigly, greatly, Spirits to protect and guide us, Inspiration strong inside us, Clearer vision, wiser choices.
An enigmatic work noted for both its difficulty and its formal beauty, it presents in 500 lines the musings of Clotho, the youngest of the three Fates, as she stands at the seashore just before dawn.
Despite the earthly powers of the Olympic gods, only the Three Fates set the destiny of Man.
How fate is set is unknown, but it is told by the Fates and by Zeus through sending omens to seers such as Calchas.
This source contains the autograph of the second trio of the Fates in its revised version, written in fair copy and divested of its chromatic enharmonic modulations.
Una Baines, co-founder of The Fall, will also perform with her group The Fates, while extra fuzz comes from Liverpool's dedicated sunshine psych combo The Sundowners.
The leading clanswomen decided prisoners' fates, sometimes basing their decision on the manner in which a relative of theirs had been killed.
Men controlled the fates of women, whose expected aim in life was to marry well.
His manipulative aides complete a trio of fates, a malign constellation wheeling round Herman on the huge empty stage like a ghoulish mobile.
Why not divide the four fates amongst four different people, and make it fair?
The fates of nations are shaped not only in boardrooms but in second-class train compartments.
Embryonic coelomic structures have specific fates as the bilaterally symmetrical larvae metamorphose into radially symmetric adults.
The subsequent killing spree accounts for the fates of many of the minor characters.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Fates told Althaea that her son Melea'ger would live just as long as a log of wood then on the fire remained unconsumed.
So are the harpies, and Medusa, and the Fates who measure and cut and spin.
Do I no ken a look like that when I speer it, and know that the Fates are to their wark.
Some antiquarians consider the Vala to be the same as the Nornor, or Fates.
At fifteen, with hardly any education, the Fates had put her in a sweat-shop.
Did kind Fates design it as a guarantee of peace and stability?
The book resonates with all the portentousness of the Fates spinning threads around inextricably entangled mortals.
The Fates and the furies exchanged glances of astonishment and horror.
It was consecrated to Hecate, and the Fates wore chaplets of its leaves.
And so Clothopharma came into being, named after Clotho, one of the Three Fates of Greek mythology who spins the thread of life.
Six several attempts were made, at various times, to canonize Capistrano, but the fates were against it.
The fates were playing, and in this case for once in the world's history their play was crosswise.
It seemed more than a decree of chance that their fates should be intertwined.
It seemed as though the fates and Sue were in league to keep Joe in my life.
It is curious to trace the varied fates of the calorific rays which strike on the surface of the earth.
You deserve your insecurities, and may embrace, even as ye please, the fates which lie before you.
It was too monstrously unjust that the fates should have hit upon George.
The fates could never be so hard, for certainly now they were smiling.
Meanwhile we must attend to the fates of these unhappy young people.
Most of us, indeed, know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates.
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