I meant to go back after we left the Quai d'Orsay, but I never did, and I am afraid the poor old woman with her petit commerce shared the fate of all the others and could not hold out against the big shops.

"Nor do I know why the Laughing Lass met her fate under Ives and McGuire, and not before.

The crisis of her disease was approaching, and the next twenty-four hours would decide her fate, and in consequence, my own, if not her brother Arthur's.

Seeing a horsewhip in his parent's hand, Tommy, scared out of a sweet sleep and a delightful dream of cricket, knew his fate; and getting out of bed, received his punishment without a word.

Some ingenious tar, whose name deserves a better fate than the oblivion into which it has fallen, attained this object by "arming" the bottom of the lead with a lump of grease, to which more or less of the sand or mud, or broken shells, as the case might be, adhered, and was brought to the surface.

Death laid its hand on his little boy Ettrick, and another child was so burnt in a fire that happened at their bungalow that he died also, whilst his beloved wife narrowly escaped the same fate.

Apart from this predominant type of character, Shelley describes his spirit as 'beautiful and swift'which surely it was: and he says that, having gazed upon Nature's naked loveliness, he had suffered the fate of a second Actseon, fleeing 'o'er the world's wilderness,' and pursued by his own thoughts like raging hounds.

A large stick properly applied has been known to seal the fate of a dozen in the space of half an hour.

I could see that she lightened his troubled mind a little, for, having accepted her fate, she was resolute to make the best of it, I even heard her laugh.

Occupied, as my thoughts were, with the scene I was about to witness, and with fears for its issue, they were often interrupted with remarks made in the crowd, in which Veenah's name or mine were mentionedsome lamenting her cruel fate, others pitying mine; but all condemning and execrating Shunah Shoo.

The dux turned a trifle pale, but pulling himself together, marched off with a firm step to learn his fate.

I could not imagine what had caused his alarm, until he said that it was Mandinga which had been set for the purpose of killing him; and he bitterly bewailed his fate, that at his age, any one should wish to hasten his death, and to carry him from this world, before our lady thought fit to send him.

Such a soul would sate Its deathless craving in some lofty flight, Some deed sublime, and read its shining fate

So he was enabled to lift up his eyes and his trusting heart to heaven, and to await his expected fate with calmness.

This settled the fate of SMITH, but the rest of Mr. McCREERY's friends, being obscure persons, were let in, in spite of the "barbaric yaup" of DRAKE, who said that the next thing would be a proposition to enact a similar outrage in Missouri, and thereby abet the efforts of the bold bad men who were trying to get him out of his seat.

By a chain of unanswerable argument, I have shown you that I hold the fate of your southern acquaintances in my hands, and shall be particularly sorry if you force me to hang Mr. PENDRAGON as a rival.

It was necessary to squeeze around the point where lay the Golden Horn, in order to avoid the fate that had overtaken her.

So it came about that Mr. Grice was unpopular, and the boys in his class bemoaned their fate, and called him uncomplimentary nicknames.

The braves of the tribe seated themselves in a circle, as if holding a council to determine our fate, while the squaws and the young boys amused themselves by holding stout sticks in the fire until one end was a living coal, and then placing these against our hands, until the pain was so great that only by summoning all my strength of will could I prevent myself from screaming.

Much anxiety is felt here concerning his fate, in case the Admiral should discover his presence on board.

To-day millions who simply watch an automatic infallible machine, which requires neither strength nor skill, do not sing at their work but too many curse the fate, which has chained them, like Ixion, to a soulless machine.

But at length, in April, 1858, they found on King William's Island the record which told plainly and fully the fate of Franklin and his companions.

The second, seeing the fate of his companion, dived for Jack's legs and seized them, pulling the lad down.

I humbly thank you, Sir, though't be too late, And wish you yet would try to change my Fate; What to Alcippus you did Love believe, Was such a Friendship as might well deceive; 'Twas what kind Sisters do to Brothers pay; Alcippus I can love no other way.

Later on the French-English Treaty was approved by the House of Commons, the French-American underwent the same fate as the Versailles Treaty.