Word: fates
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...darkness flying on, their fate the wind...
...Fate is relentless, as we mortals find...
...agreeable to hear that, in the recent great University race in England, Mr. J. E. Peabody, an American, was in the winning crew. Had Mr. Peabody followed out his original intention of coming to Harvard, he would have been a most valuable member of our boating community. But fate decreed otherwise, and he went to our Mother University in England, where he has gained considerable reputation as a boating man, and is very favorably spoken of by the papers. We should feel proud that our reputation is so well sustained abroad...
...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...