Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...first inning Harvard made three runs, to one for Yale; in the second we again scored three, and Yale retired for nothing; but in the third, Nevins having been substituted for A very in the pitcher's position, we experienced a similar fate, Yale getting two. The Nine soon became accustomed to Nevin's eccentric underhand throws, and punished him for two, five, and two, in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, while New Haven only obtained a two and a one in the fifth and sixth. At this point the score showed fifteen runs in our favor against...
...darkness flying on, their fate the wind...
...Fate is relentless, as we mortals find...
...famished Commoner, as he sits down to his Spartan repast, should have his senses of smell, taste, and hearing shocked by his food and "table-talk," but, as he raises the goblet to his lips, he must see myriads of animals swimming in the water. Thus is the fate of Tantalus added to the horrors of Commons. Some of us, who are water-drinkers, must be carrying around a small internal menagerie, or, rather, aquarium, by this time. But time hardens the Commoner to almost anything, and to some it may be amusing to watch the little creatures at play...
...motives. Lytton himself, when afterwards alluding to this novel, speaks of the constant attacks on its morality. The character of the heroine is certainly a lovely one; still, even she seems to serve the purpose of making blacker the crimes of the others, and of causing Aram's fate to appear more disagreeable...