Probing human nature he soon guessed that courage was rashness; prudence, cowardice; generosity, shrewd calculation; justice, a crime; delicacy, pusillanimity; honesty, policy; and by a singular fatality he perceived that the persons who were really honest, delicate, just, generous, prudent and courageous received no consideration at the hands of their fellows.

I set out for that purpose; and my steps, by some mysterious fatality, were directed to the private apartment at the end of the library.

An inexpressible fatality had entered into her tones, always rich and resonant with feeling.

COMPARED ARE AS FOLLOWS Federal troops killed in action, 67,058; died of wounds, 43,012; died of disease, 224,586; making total Federal fatalities 334,656.

Oppression was taken for a gloomy fatality.

And what a horrible fatality thrusts me into this ridiculous and miserable situation!

He looked, with distrust, upon all metaphysical systems of theology, and was persuaded, that the positions of Pope were intended to draw mankind away from revelation, and to represent the whole course of things, as a necessary concatenation of indissoluble fatality."

But on what part of the African continent had an inexplicable fatality landed him?

This war that had come between him and his father had been bred of the fumes of self-centered minds, turned with an infantile fatality to greedy desires.

It is an inscrutable fatality....

It was by an obstinate fatality that, whenever I saw Mr. Falkland in these deplorable situations, and particularly when I lighted upon him after having sought him among the rocks and precipices, pale, emaciated, solitary, and haggard, the suggestion would continually recur to me, in spite of inclination, in spite of persuasion, and in spite of evidence, Surely this man is a murderer!

In this department of astrology (judicial) we meet with all the idle conceits about the horary reign of planets, the doctrine of horoscopes, the distribution of the houses, the calculation of nativities, fortunes, lucky and unlucky hours, and other ominous fatalities.

But by a perverse fatality the three witnesses had perished within a month: the two brothers at Marston Moor; and the confidant, of fever, at Cloostedd.

Perhaps one may say that this equivalent for grandeur is a certain simple touching of our sense of human kinship, of the large identity of the conditions of the human lot, of the piteous fatalities which bring the lives of the great multitude of men to be little more than "grains of sand to be blown by the wind."

They then took a brief rest, but with that disregard for danger which is characteristic of the true American, they at once organized another expedition, and a few months later resumed the task so tragically interrupted and marred with such a sad fatality.

"It's sheer fatality that I should be tied up to the Kaiser.

There would have been an extra five hundred dollars a year when he was at sea, and on the strength of this addition to their former income he intended to increase the amount of his life insurance, but it had not yet been done when the sudden illness seized him, an illness that began so gently and innocently and terminated with such sudden and unexpected fatality.

MARGARET, a simple, innocent girl in Goethe's "Faust," who is the victim of a tragic fatality; Faust meets her as she comes from church, falls in love with her, and seduces her; she slays the infant born, is convicted and condemned to death, and loses her reason; Faust would fain save her, but he is hurried away by Mephistopheles, and she is left to her fate.

By an unforeseen fatality, the very expedient adopted hastened the explanation she would now have given so much to postpone.

An unfortunate fatality seemed, however, to clog nearly all these efforts.

But with that unhappy fatality which seemed to attend his every action, this resolution, which would have been productive of such good results at first, now seemed but a tardy and inefficient apology for courtly hauteur.

It was with altered eyes that she must look on the poor girl, the victim of such an unheard-of fatality.

But that would be the speech of one having no faith in the all-watching Eye, and regarding the eternal laws of the universe not as an emanation of a bountiful Providence, but of a blind fatality, which plays at hazard with the destinies of men.

Is it an untoward fatality (speaking humanly) that does this for you,a stubborn, irresistible concurrence of events,or lies the fault, as I fear it does, in your own mind?

The sole surviving relatives of old Van Quintem were three elderly ladies, who, by some contagious fatality, remained unmarried.