Parcae
Americanplural noun
plural noun
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They both accept Destiny,—the Parcae or the Norns spin the threads of life,—and yet both admit a sphere of human choice.
From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John
The Parcae were apparently identified with the three “weird” Sisters known in England and in other Teutonic regions, and seem to have some connection with the fairies.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.
Thus in the bygone day Peleus' fate foretelling Chaunted from breasts divine prophetic verse the Parcae.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
In this these goddesses differ greatly from the Parcae, whose ordinances not even Zeus could withstand, as Lucian lets us know in one of the most audacious and philosophical of the dialogues.
From Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty by Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir
In M. Auguste Dozon's collection of Albanian stories, there is one called "The sold child," which bears directly on the survival of the Parcae.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
It shall be my resolve, lastingly, I hope, to endure until it pleases the implacable Parca: to break the thread.
From Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
What fortunate, or what disastrous bird Omen'd my fate? which Parca winds my yarn, That I alone find Pity deaf as asp, And wretched live who happy hoped to be?
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
Perhaps its citizens are to be envied rather than pitied: "bene est cui deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est, manu."
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
Innumerable things the little lupa learned at the side of the old woman, bony and ugly as a Parca!
From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente
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