Do we say fated or feted

fated 525 occurrences

It seemed altogether beyond their power to do anything, and yet there was not a boy who would not have given his dearest possession, were it a white rat or a stamp collection, if by parting with it he could have rendered some assistance to his ill-fated comrade.

Our three friends, however, seemed fated to find in the person of Noaks junior a perpetual stumbling-block and cause of disquietude and annoyance.

At Hamburg, I was fated to meet with disappointment.

But it seemed that the patient was fated to disappoint the predictions of his friend as well as those of the surgeons at Mercy Hospital.

We only know that the ill-fated train was destroyed, the members murdered and their wagons burned.

Hearing the story in February, 1873, while we were encamped at Van Bremer's ranch, Colonel C. B. Bellinger and I made a search for the body of the ill-fated girl.

Our people and our government have sinned alike against the first-born of the soil, and if they are the fated agents of a new era, they have done nothinghave invoked no god to keep them sinless while they do the hest of fate.

Take this packet; do not open it till other means have failed; within ten days of the fated day you may break the seal, and you will find directions that may be useful to you.

Will you leave this troubled, fated land and come with me to that other one, where I will make you forget the horrors, the sufferings you have endured in thiswhere

The Magyars of Transylvania betrayed him; the German emperor condemned him; and a Greek in Austria's service, General Basta, had him sabred: as though it were fated that all the enemies of the Rumanian race, the Magyar, the German, and the Greek, should unite to dip their hands in the blood of the Latin hero.'

"Are you aware," exclaimed Descourtis, as he rushed into the apartment of Cambacérès, who was at that moment conversing with the Count de Pere, "have you already been informed that this ceremony is really to take place to-morrow?" "Yes, to-morrow is the fated day.

York seems a title fated to sit on silly headsor don't let us talk of him; he is not worth it.

and when thy days are told, Ill-fated Ruth, in hallowed mould Thy corpse shall buried be, 255 For thee a funeral bell shall ring, And all the congregation sing A Christian psalm for thee.

From a Review of "Love the Greatest Enchantment", etc., in the "New York Tablet", July 19, 1862, written by the gifted and ill-fated Hon.

Who is there, "to dell forgetfulness a prey," who does not look with intense interest on objects connected with the "mighty victor, mighty lord," Edward the Third, the Black Prince, Henry VIII., the imperious Elizabeth, the ill-fated Mary of Scotland, or the unhappy Charles I.?

Mrs. Morley said, she had written to inform Lord Alphingham of the death of his broken-hearted wife, enclosing one from the ill-fated Agnes herself.

Yes, proof was plain that, since the day When this ill-fated Traveller died, The Dog had watched about the spot, 60 Or by his master's side: How nourished here through such long time He knows, who gave that love sublime; And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate!

35 Ill-fated Vessel!ghastly shock!

The Cyprian came to thy cradle, When thou wast little and small, And said to the nurse who rocked thee "Fear not thou for the child: "She shall be kindly favoured, 5 And fair and fashioned well, As befits the Lesbian maidens And those who are fated to love.

I am fated, however, to hear from him pretty soon; and, when I do, his communication is surprising.

Of these an Employers' Liability Act resembles Mr. Asquith's ill-fated Bill.

She named to me all her children, an immense tribe; and, by the by, E, it has occurred to me that whereas the increase of this ill-fated race is frequently adduced as a proof of their good treatment and well being, it really and truly is no such thing, and springs from quite other causes than the peace and plenty which a rapidly increasing population are supposed to indicate.

There seems hardly to be a family in Georgia and South Carolina that had not some of its members on board that ill-fated ship.

They watched from a distance the piteous sight of the ill-fated steamer settling down, the gay girdle of light that marked the line of her beautiful saloons and cabins gradually sinking nearer and nearer to the blackness, in which they were presently extinguished; and the ship, with all its precious human freight engulfedall but the handful left in those two open boats, to brave the dangers of that terrible coast!

It seemed quite natural that that ill-fated pair of lovers should go through life, love, wed, and die singing.

feted 11 occurrences

Never had the rascal been so petted, so feted, so adored.

The Prince Regent sought her acquaintance; the greatest nobles feted her in their princely palaces.

When feasted and feted, he could find nothing better to say than 'What a half-starved turkey.'

From the time a trim maid showed him into the smoking-room until late at night, when he left, a feted and honoured guest, with one of his host's best cigars between his teeth, nothing that could yield him any comfort was left undone.

From the time a trim maid showed him into the smoking-room until late at night, when he left, a feted and honoured guest, with one of his host's best cigars between his teeth, nothing that could yield him any comfort was left undone.

Did one of these violate her vow of chastity, she and her fellow criminal were at once put to death; but did she claim that the child she bore was of divine parentage, and the contrary could not be shown, then she was feted as a queen, and the product of her womb was classed among princes, as a son of the sun.

From that time until the present Tom has lived constantly an open life, petted, feted, his real talent befogged by exaggeration, and so pampered and coddled that one might suppose the only purpose was to corrupt and wear it out.

When Ptolemy Philadelphus feted the Alexandrians (Athenoeus, v.), the Ethiopians brought dogs, buffaloes, bears, leopards, lynxes, a giraffe, and a rhinoceros.

They scarcely remain in any place longer than suffices to view the churches, and to deliver their letters of recommendation; or, if their stay be protracted at some capital town, it is only to be feted from one house to another, among that class of people who are every where alike.

They scarcely remain in any place longer than suffices to view the churches, and to deliver their letters of recommendation; or, if their stay be protracted at some capital town, it is only to be feted from one house to another, among that class of people who are every where alike.

Thus it was that by the magic of beauty Aurora and her Countess sister found themselves installed at the Dresden Court, feted like Queens, receiving the caresses of the Court ladies, and the homage of every man, from Augustus himself to the youngest page, of whom a smile from their pretty lips made a veritable slave.

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