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- proper noun Greek mythology
Atropos ,Clotho , andLachesis ;supernatural beings who controlled thedestiny of men and of thegods .
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Examples
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Duel of Fates is the only song I know off Star Wars.
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Norns '(for so in that country they called the Fates)' beckon you to a land where green fields lie under a blue sky, fields where golden-haired maidens lie among the flowers. '
The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878
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That was exactly what he had to do now, in order to call the Fates to come to him.
The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010
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Sullen teenagers are in charge of loading people onto high velocity rides at amusement parks...perhaps the Fates are the same.
I get cake, I get needles, I get to go to ER Elizabeth McClung 2007
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The Fates are a tripartite entity, and she gives up the first job, and is invited to the next after spending some time as a mortal again.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: With A Tangled Skein - Piers Anthony Blue Tyson 2007
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But what you may call the Fates ordered him into it again.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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For Particulars and Universals alike it is established that to the first of those known as the Fates, to Clotho the Spinner, must be due the unity and as it were interweaving of all that exists: Lachesis presides over the Lots: to Atropos must necessarily belong the conduct of mundane events.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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The three sisters who are called the Fates came also.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926
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The three sisters who are called the Fates came also.
Part III. The Heroes of the Quest. Chapter II. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea. II 1921
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You are our fellow slaves, he would say; if the Fates are our mistresses, they are also yours.
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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