68 Metaphors for fate

I sometimes think that Fate is the best of stage managers!

Even while the fate of Antwerp was undecided, the United Provinces, seeing that they were still too weak to resist alone the undivided force of the Spanish monarchy, had opened negotiations with France and England at once, in the hope of gaining one or the other for an ally and protector.

It is brought doubly nearer and distinct by this miserable war, and the strange fate that has fallen upon usto be the guests of a family whose hopes are fixed upon what would make us miserable if it ever happened.

There was little doubt as to that; I could advance no military reason for being treated other than as a spy, and my fate would be the short shift meted out to such over the drum-head.

It would be quite as reasonable to affirm that the man of seventy has the same chances for life as the youth of fifteen, or that the inevitable fate of all things of mortal origin was not destruction.

Like the charge itself, his fate is history.

With no hope of beating the main Bulgarian army back, there was no hope of relieving the garrison, whose fate was only a matter of time.

Fate, to be sure, is a strange thing, as my friends the soldiers know so well.

"The fate of the Architect is the strangest of all in this way.

The hour of seven chimed; three hours more, and her fate was irrevocably sealedthe God of her youth profaned; for could she ever address Him again when the wife of Alphingham?

Fate itself is the protagonist, your actor cannot carry much character, it is out of place.

But no, Sir! Fate may be a fickle jade, rogues may appear triumphant, but not for long, Sir, not for long!

It seemed as if Fate was tryin' to halt us, but our horse-power was too high.

" The fate of Colonel Palmer was the more affecting, from the consideration that he had raised one hundred and fifty good men, who had come with him as volunteers; that he was in a fort in which a breach had been made, and of course was no adequate protection; and that he was beyond the reach of any assistance.

Till the future dares Forget the past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity.' 2. Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, When thy son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies In darkness?

They said the fate that had befallen Rattleton was simply a warning.

His garters then did duty as handcuffs: and with the aid of a brawny aide-de-camp (one such always attended him), he pinioned his victim hand and foot, and then most considerately advised him to pray for King George, observing that any prayers for his own dd popish soul would be only time lost, as his fate in every world (should there be even a thousand) was decided to all eternity for having imagined the death of so good a monarch.

The deceased gentleman had, with inexplicable rashness, made his way into this labyrinth without, as far as can be discovered, taking with him either candles or matches, so that his sad fate was the natural result of his own temerity.

[*] [Footnote: The cruel fate of Mary Dyer, the Quaker, who was condemned to death by Governor Endicott, at Boston, is a lamentable instance of the narrow-minded and cruel policy of the rulers of that community.

Warner's fate was inclusion in the number of astrologers and alchemists retained by the Duchess of Bedford, who also gave a place amongst her maidens to Sybill, to whom Hastings had proffered his devoted attachment, though he was already bound by ties of policy and early love to Margaret de Bonville.

The final meal was commonly made up of sandwiches with porridge and milk, or perhaps, when fate was remarkably propitious, thin pancakes with cranberry jam.

could I know thy soul with equal grief was torn, This fate might be enduredthis anguish might be borne.

Let his fate be a lesson to us, and teach us to live in charity with each other.

In the first place, therefore, Providence, according to common conceptions, is the cause of good to the subjects of its care; and Fate is the cause of a certain connection to generated natures.

That idea-process, this Anti-Fate is Science.

68 Metaphors for  fate