"Fateful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enlarged pores or something. And the plum-colored plush frame didn't sit very well on the vermilion wall paper. But Mrs. Cinnamon hung it over the sofa in the expectation of changing the paper some day. It stayed there until the fateful evening when Mr. Nelson Chur called on Miss Editha Cinnamon and was just warming up a proposal that had held over almost as long as the wall paper, when bang! down came the overhanging brass drawing and bent itself hopelessly on Mr. Chur's skull. Mr. Chur ...
— Mrs. Budlong's Chrismas Presents • Rupert Hughes
... by his almost superhuman effort, Jack sank down upon the hard rocks, where he had stood at the fateful moment. ...
— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood
... faced, and I could feel the strength ebbing fast from me, but I could see that Rodolph's face was pale, even through his swarthy skin. "One, two, three, Fire," came again the fateful words; but I had nerved myself for the final effort, and glancing down the polished barrel, I fired, at the same moment that Rodolph's ...
— The Tory Maid • Herbert Baird Stimpson
... powerful story of strenuous endeavor and fateful privation in the frozen North, embodying also a detective story of much strength and skill. The author brings out with sure touch and deep understanding the mystery and poetry ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... her lovers. At the end the hand of Hars, stiffened in death, clings to her robe, and brings her face to face with that death which the veritable Messalina was too cowardly to give to herself when her own mother pleaded with her to do so at the fateful meeting in the garden ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
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