![]() Her fate was sealed by the marriage arrangement made in her youth. One company went bankrupt, and a similar fate befell the other. They thought they would never see each other again, but fate brought them back together. Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz, 1959 Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows. What quirk of fate, this time round, Syd, checked the great man's stride? - John le Carré, A Perfect Spy, 1986 Often there is a specified character on whom a work hinges and whose fate we follow, a Raskolnikov or a Hamlet … - Robert Penn Warren, Democracy and Poetry, 1975 The money goes down one-two-three on the table, fives and tens and twenties, and the wheel begins to spin. 1992 So what went wrong? I ask Syd again, glancing ahead to the inevitable end. ![]() ![]() Noun … the fate of our species is bound up with those of countless others, with which we share a habitat that we cannot long dominate … - John Gray, Times Literary Supplement, 11 Sept.
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