Parca

American  

[pahr-kuh] / ˈpɑr kə /

noun

1. an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny.

2. any one of the Parcae.

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Example Sentences

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

Poco alcança, y mucho hierra quien prevenido, no advierte lo inconstante de su suerte; pues no reserva la Parca al Sucessor de un Monarca del tributo de la muerte.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Bourne, Edward Gaylord

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

Parca superstitio; non thurea flamma, nec altus Accipitur sanguis, lachrymis altaria sudant ...

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Si piget, et longam traxisse in taedia pompam Vivax, et nimium Bulla videtur anus: Tolle tuos oculos pensum leve defluet, illam Parca metet facili non operosa manu.155 Vixit adhuc.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard