| 单词 | Atropos |
| 例句 | Like Ms. Rosler’s work, “Operation Atropos” compresses the perceived distance between the United States and its theaters of conflict. Everyday Horrors: Art in the Age of Terror 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z At the other end of the human journey came Atropos, one of the Three Fates of Greek mythology, who cut the thread of life with her shears. How Elegant, How Lethal 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z “The Atropos Maker” follows Norma in her return to the Atropos, a secret agency she helped establish decades prior before a long hiatus from combat and missions. Author draws inspiration from West Virginia town in new book 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos are the spinner, the allotter and the cutter of the thread of life, respectively. Ageing-related receptors resolved 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Atropos and her shears no longer reside in Greece; fate is now decided elsewhere. Eurozone crisis: Greece faces an agonising election choice 2012-06-13T12:35:51Z When he turned, eager to take up the fallen thread, Clotho could not have been more cold than his neighbour, nor Atropos with her shears more decisive. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z In several of the other prints Death is represented under the name of Atropos, as president in tournaments. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z The world of Atropos is far from over yet, the characters already alive in Lujan’s next installment in the series, one that she’s nearly finished. Author draws inspiration from West Virginia town in new book 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z The Fates, the Destinies, the goddesses supposed to preside over human life: Clotho, who spins the thread of life; Lachesis, who determines the length of the thread; Atropos, who cuts it off. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Of the offices assigned to the fates, that of Clotho was to hold the distaff, while Lachesis twirled the spindle, and Atropos determined the length of the thread. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z The distance decreased as the spiral drew in; the Lachesis-web was being spun fine; Atropos stood ready with her shears. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Lachesis is represented with a spindle, Clotho with the thread, and Atropos with shears, with which she cuts it off. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Satan becomes Pluto, and human sin is Atropos. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Agap� found the sisters sitting round the fateful distaff, which Clotho held while Lachesis span the threads that measured out men's lives, and cruel Atropos cut them in twain. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z Atropos was clothed in black; she held scissors in her hand, with clues of threads of various sizes, according to the length or shortness of the lives whose destinies they were supposed to contain. Heathen Mythology It was well said; yet not even the broadest sanest argument can altogether persuade Death out of his traditional r�le, nor induce Atropos to wield her shears always without caprice. The Great Miss Driver Throughout the Revolutionary War he carried, like Atropos, in his hand the destinies of millions; he bore, like Atlas, on his shoulders the weight of a world. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. Footnote 9: Clotho holds the distaff, Lachesis spins the thread, and Atropos severs it. Black Forest Village Stories L. 31 the blind Fury: Atropos, fabled to cut the thread of life. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes Beau rolled over and came up pulling from the ruffles of his shirt bosom a derringer I knew was some other weapon in disguise—a stun gun or even an Atropos. The Big Time The savans christened this stranger by a name not too reassuring,—the Sphinx Atropos. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 It was the duty of Atropos to cut the thread of life at the appointed time. Minor Poems by Milton Here or nowhere we have the broken chain, the rejected past, precedent and statute superseded by unwritten law, sons wiser than their fathers, ideas rooted in the future, reason cutting as clean as Atropos. The History of Freedom Hesiod describes Atropos indeed as having sharp teeth and long nails, waiting to tear and devour the dead; but this image was of a barbarous era. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 I begged hard, but there was someone called Auntie who had to be considered, an Atropos for that thread of romance. The Passionate Friends Ah! the cap is there, but the embroiderer has fled; for Atropos was severing the web of life above her head while she was weaving that silken shelter for mine! Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos kept Jupiter himself in awe of their shears, and the old Norns, Urdur, Verdandi, and Skuld, ruined Wotan's power and his glory. In a Little Town Lachesis announced the past, Clotho the present, and Atropos the future. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. The inexorable Atropos brandished her scissors, and at one snip severed the thread asunder. An Old Sailor's Yarns Are they aware what a disagreeable association of ideas is produced in the students of Lempri�re's classical dictionary by the two last names? or the Charon or Atropos? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 My soul had met Some fearful doom; and there had dropt a threat,— A curse belike,—from lips of Atropos. A Lover's Litanies When at length, in 1453, the Turks took Constantinople, the splendid commercial career of Genoa was cut with the shears of Atropos. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest Like the time—the 'Atropos' came in just after we touched down. A Question of Courage And Atropos, the third, has a pair of shears ready to cut the thread of life. The Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!' The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation I haff by chance with my cultivator among your potatoes already twenty pupæ of the magnificent moth, Sphinx Atropos, upturned! Barbarians You know these ladies, reader; but here they are grander, gloomier, diviner than were our old friends Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Miss Eliza bit off her thread with as much decision as ever Atropos dares use in cutting hers. The Heart of Arethusa The ancients believed that the duration of human existence and the destinies of mortals were regulated by three sister-goddesses, called Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who were the daughters of Zeus and Themis. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome The Fates are named Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, and are the goddesses of destiny. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Come, fatal blade, make like despatch: come, Atropos: come, aid! The Growth of English Drama We die before the shears Of Atropos the thread have clipped. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 True, he doesn't know the flowers by name, and in his hands a pair of clippers are as fatal as the shears in the hands of Atropos, but he is in the picture. The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches Lachesis, twist! and, Atropos, sever! 35In the shadow, year out, year in, The silent headsman waits forever. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations Clotho draws the thread, Lachesis turns the wheel, and Atropos cuts the string asunder when spun to a due length. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Atropos might be persuaded to pity as soon as he to pardon where he found just fault. Life of John Milton Of course the element of Love is not wanting; two golden threads run through the crimsoned web; but whether they meet before Atropos comes with the fatal shears, it is not best to say. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 And Atropos, blind and unpitying as the future always is, stood ready, with cruel shears, to clip the twist in twain. Hero Tales The Parcae were not more methodical; Atropos not more fatal; the automaton chess-player not more irresponsible. Israel Potter Clotho attended the Spread Board; the can-minders coiling away the sliver, stood for Lachesis; while in the spinners, who cut the thread when the bobbin was full, Estelle found Atropos, the goddess of the shears. The Spinners I pleaded, with the wild monotony of perfect terror, grasping and clinging to her dress, and looking up, with an agonised face, into the eyes of that shadowy Atropos. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh But that makes me think of Atropos again, and the joke I am planning to play on her. Reveries of a Schoolmaster But Atropos hid her shears beneath her mantle, and said, 'Not so. Hero Tales Yet it is easy for Atropos, that cruel fate, to clip the slender thread of life and send men on to die land of shades. An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight And lastly, with Pierian pipe he was making the pasture lands resound, black Atropos, alas, broke off the work of joy. Ravenna, a Study "The envious blades of Atropos' scissors have not cut the mortal thread yet anyhow," he answered, smiling, permitting himself the classic conceit as a screen to possible emotion. Deadham Hard I'm quite in the notion of playing a practical joke on Atropos, and, perhaps, on Methuselah, while I'm about it. Reveries of a Schoolmaster The Fates, too, were there: sad Clotho, twirling her spindle; unloving Lachesis, with wrinkled lips ready to speak the fatal word; and pitiless Atropos, holding in her hand the unsparing shears. Hero Tales Awaking, he heard them accurately; and Atropos might be persuaded to pity as soon as he to pardon where he found just fault. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Her name was Atropos, and she held a pair of sharp shears in her hand. Old Greek Stories Before we commit ourselves to further enterprises, my darling, let us quite understand one another upon one or two practical points—bearing in mind the blades of Atropos' envious scissors. Deadham Hard I'm not partial to Atropos at the best. Reveries of a Schoolmaster At'ropos, one of the Fates, whose office is to cut the thread of life with a pair of scissors. ... nor shines the knife, Nor shears of Atropos before their vision. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook He had delayed too long; had asked too much of the Fates, and Atropos, the scissors-bearing sister, had snipped his thread of hope. The Grafters She gently drew out the thread which Clotho spun, and turning to stern Atropos, said: "Lay aside those shears, sister, and give the child your gift." Old Greek Stories Atropos, your were always one to talk too much. The Tarn of Eternity But in those days I was devoting more time and attention to Clotho than to Atropos. Reveries of a Schoolmaster Clotho and Lachesis were over them and Atropos less tall than they, a goddess of no great frame, yet superior to the others and the eldest of them. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously, "The Acherontia Atropos of the Sphinges, what you call the 'Death's-head Moth'?" Dracula "I give him life until this brand shall be burned to ashes," was the answer; and Atropos took a small stick of wood and laid it on the burning coals. Old Greek Stories Atropos looked at the scissors handed her, sighed. The Tarn of Eternity We have constructed a fate, an Atropos, that never turns aside. Walden Atropos has decreed that I at least shall never again enter her walls. Philothea A Grecian Romance As the blue sky was gradually covering, the gigantic figures of Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos became as gradually dimmer and dimmer, and the grasp of Vivian's fearful burden looser and looser. Vivian Grey For Clotho spins the thread, Lachesis draws it out, and Atropos waits to cut it off with her glittering shears. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Atropos smiled a broad smile, then a more reserved one, then tried a calm yet quiet visage. The Tarn of Eternity "Mark how short the longest web Allowed to man! he cried; observe how soon, Twin'd round yon never-resting wheel, they change Their snowy hue, darkening thro' many a shade, Till Atropos relentless shuts the sheers!" Poems, 1799 I believe, said Pantagruel, that all intellectual souls are exempted from Atropos's scissors. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Others have been heard most woefully to lament, at the very instant when Atropos was about to cut the thread of their life, that Pantagruel held them by the gorge. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 The three Fates, Clotho, who spins the thread of life; Lachesis, who fixes its prolongation; and Atropos, who cuts this thread with remorseless shears, are necessarily derived from woman's work. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Clotho spun the thread of life, Lachesis held it, and Atropos cut it. Palamon and Arcite Madam Atropos in breeches, Waller's knight-errantry; and because every mountebank must have his zany, throw him in Hazelrig to set off his story. Character Writings of the 17th Century I see upon our main-top that merciless hag Atropos, with her scissors new ground, ready to cut our threads all at one snip. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 “They’re called—” “Atropos?” ventured the novice, who wished to show that he also knew somebody, at least in mythology. The Reign of Greed Would Atropos would cut my vital thread, And so make lavish of my loathed life: Or gentle heav'ns would smile with fair aspect, And so give better fortunes to my love! A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 "According to you, then," said Euphronius, "the fates of men are not spun for them by Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, but by their predecessors?" The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales The first, Clotho, spins the thread of life, the second, Lachesis, determines its length, and the third, Atropos, cuts it. Elson Grammar School Literature v4 Clotho, the Past, spins; Lachesis, the Present, divides; and Atropos, the Future, stands ready with her shears to cut the thread. The Story of Siegfried Clotho and Lachesis, whose boundless sway, With Atropos, both men and gods obey. Mosaics of Grecian History The entrails were removed, and an old woman—the Atropos of the camp—stretched them between her fingers in half-yard lengths, simultaneously pronouncing the title of a tribe in the district. Confessions of a Beachcomber Atropos, one of the Fates Attica, a state in ancient Greece. Legends of Charlemagne He attempted to cut the threads of continuity as with the shears of Atropos. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth It was the Sphinx Atropos, the Death's Head Moth; and there, upon its breast, appallingly distinct, grinned the ghastly, gray human skull. St. Elmo Everywhere the shears of Atropos were busy, and never could the cut threads be joined again. The Valley of Decision In Laura's case, no kindly Atropos snipped the thread of her aspirations: these, large, vague, extemporary, one and all achieved fulfilment; then withered off to make room for more. The Getting of Wisdom And Plato intimates the same thing under the names of the Fates, calling one Atropos, the other Lachesis, and the other Clotho. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies The Atropos pulsatorius is said to make a noise with its jaws, which is answered by other individuals. The Descent of Man I look, and there she is, the accursed Atropos! Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ Foolish glory has no charm for me, though a Poet and King: when once Atropos has ended me forever, what will the uncertain honor of living in the Temple of Memory avail? History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 Followed the lesser buccaneer vessels, the Elizabeth, Lachesis, and Atropos, and a dozen frigates laden with stores, besides canoes and small craft in tow. Captain Blood Lachesis, the giver of the lots, is the first of them; Clotho, the spinster, the second; Atropos, the unchanging one, is the third and last, who makes the threads of the web irreversible. Laws The giving of the lots, the weaving of them, and the making of them irreversible, which are ascribed to the three Fates—Lachesis, Clotho, Atropos, are obviously derived from their names. The Republic O, between the clangour of these high-storming tocsins and that snore of Dulness, what a gamut: of trepidation, excitation, desperation; and above it mere Doubt, Danger, Atropos and Nox! The French Revolution Would you discover the Atropos of Human Virtue; the sure Destroyer, "by painless extinction," of Human Veracities, Performances, and Capabilities to perform or to be veracious,—it is this, you have it here. Latter-Day Pamphlets The starboard gunwale of the Atropos had been hammered into splinters, and a shot had caught her astern in the coach. Captain Blood |
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