- singular of Parcae.
Parca
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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 Thomas Campbell
Innumerable things the little lupa learned at the side of the old woman, bony and ugly as a Parca!
From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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 J. Arthur Gibbs
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 Henry Edward Krehbiel
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