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I would not sell my prospect of possessing her for double your bribe." "Your 'prospect! Your prospect is about as deceptive as a fata morgana! What have you been doing, I ask you again, toward realizing this prospect and earning the money you have already received?" "Fair and easy, my colonel! Don't let temper get the better of justice!
"You are the woman, the curious thing that God made to stir life. You would draw all activities to you, and through you nothing may pass. Like the dead sea of grass you encompass the end of desire. You have been with me from my manhood, the fata morgana that laughed at my love of other creatures. I must meet you, I knew, face to face!" His lips closed. "Go on!"
If these three men would permit themselves to hazard an expression at all on the subject, which they didn't, each could have done it by his own favorite motto, so admirably expressive of his individual nature. "Donnez tête baissée!" "Fata quocunque vocant!"
Habent sua fata libelli! Motley’s “Rise of the Dutch Republic” was refused by the illustrious house of Murray. The now historical “Foundations” of Chamberlain were rejected for twenty years by English publishers, until the translation brought a little fortune to Mr. John Lane.
A quick turn saved them. A wonderful mirage of the Fata Morgana type was visible on August 20. The day was clear and bright, with a blue sky overhead and some rime aloft. "The distant pack is thrown up into towering barrier-like cliffs, which are reflected in blue lakes and lanes of water at their base.
We possess but few verses of the Mussulmans of Granada. "My children are at Guadia, my wife at Jolfata; Thou hast caused my ruin, O Setti Omm el Fata. My children are at Guadia, my wife at Jolfata, Thou hast caused my ruin, O Setti Omm el Fata!" A. de Circourt. Histoire des Moors mudijares et des Moresques. Paris, 1846. As may be seen, these verses have no resemblance to those called Moorish.
"Then it seems that your majesty has followed a fata morgana," said the prince, with a forced smile; "for, as you see, I am alone, and no one else is present in the conservatory." But even while speaking, the prince glanced involuntarily toward the grotto which concealed his secret. The Queen Sophia Dorothea caught this glance, and divined its meaning.
Then it appeared to her as if she were flying high in the air, towards the cloudy palace of the "Fata Morgana," and a fairy came out to meet her, radiant and beautiful in appearance, and yet very much like the old woman who had given her berries in the wood, and who had told her of the swans with golden crowns on their heads.
I thought I was in a state of delirium and that the sight of your ship, especially after the disappointment of the preceding day, was only a mirage of my imagination, like the Fata Morgana!" "But, you hailed us, sir," I said here, on the captain motioning me to come forward. "Why, you answered me when I spoke to you, sir!"
The larger our acquaintance with it, the more does its action seem to encroach upon the domain within which our volitions and acts can make any difference. Even in social life we seem in the grip and grasp of forces which carry us towards evil or good whether we will or no. Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.
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