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Word: fates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next. The Directors who shall be elected in the fall must be vigilant, and see that the board is good at the beginning, and also that it remains so; they must make the steward understand that if, dazzled by his success, he becomes at all remiss, his fate will be the same as was that of his predecessor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...LEANED far out my window this May-morn To catch the scene so beautiful. Bright flowers Loaded the air with fragrance from rose-bowers, Freshening my heart by cruel fate uptorn. Nestling in new-clothed maples, the robin, born...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...quantity. If we win the match, the spectators of the contest will adjourn to the various spreads with light hearts and excellent appetites, the evening will wear happily away, and when the lanterns begin to fall our guests will reluctantly depart from the scene of revelry. If a cruel fate decides the contest otherwise, the result will be - But no, we decline to consider this side of the question. We rejoice that "our latest, largest class" is after all not to "dip out like a penny candle," and we sincerely trust that the 22d of June will long be remembered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

Keep off the fate of pore, sely Wille...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROCTOURES TALE OF GAMBLYN. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...taken from the Trinity Tablet: "The word was given, and '79 and '80 met with terrible force. For a moment the well-known pluck of '79 withstood the shock, but in a second the overwhelming numbers of '80 [35 in the class] overcame the resistance, and decided the fate of the contest. '79 was pushed, but it was not to their shame. For hey showed great pluck in attempting to 'rush' a class just twice their own in size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

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