Word: fates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sham." Archibald Forbes, the vehement, who whilhom used to be so proud in his contempt of American buncombe and shams, now hangs his haughty head in humiliation of spirit, and privately pours out the vials of his wrath upon Oscar's devoted head. Poor Oscar, hard is thy fate indeed! When thou hadst thought to win honor and fame upon this foreign strand, and to convert the souls of the heathen to the bliss of intensity and the high mysteries of art, thy friends and kindred turn from thee and forsake thee...
...clock precisely the Princeton men entered the arena; the Yale men appeared five minutes later. Fate, however, was against the New England college. At 10.45 the four surviving Yale men who were still able to wield their clubs cried for quarter, and the referee, announcing that Princeton had won the championship, delivered the ball to the Princeton leader. The casualties are : Three Yale men and three Princeton men killed; four Yale men and seven Princeton men wounded, two of the latter not being expected to recover. Robinson and Brown, of Yale, have each both legs broken, and Jenkins, of Princeton...
...Guiteau might be conducted without continual insults being thrown out at the man's family. Such remarks as are frequently made by the prosecuting counsel, as "he's one of the Guiteau family," or "she's like all the Guiteaus'," etc., are entirely uncalled for. Whatever may be the fate of Guiteau his unfortunate sister and other relatives deserve only sympathy and consideration...
...fate would have it, one of these families, consisting of father, mother, and three children, established itself in one of the seats between myself and the charmer, and very seriously interfered with the line of visual communication; in fact, shut off entirely from my view the two occupants of the seat behind...
THEN there were kisses and sighs, loving looks and words of passion. It was necessary to admire the fate which had brought together these two, so well suited one to another; and to explain the thoughts of each since their parting a few hours before...