Like the time -- the 'Atropos' came in just after we touched down.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Question of Courage] Reference

Hornblower and the Hotspur, and Hornblower and the Atropos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustration Friday: Breakfast] Reference

"So we made haste to secure you ou'selves," Atropos went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

We have constructed a fate, an Atropos, that never turns aside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

Lachesis, and Atropos who give mortal men evil and good to have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

Atropos was forestalled, my thread of life still falls uncut from.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

Clotho and Lachesis were over them and Atropos less tall than they.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

That's all Atropos wanted it don't matter whether I'm there or not!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, with Lachesis control - ling the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE] Reference

Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who were the daughters of Zeus and Themis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

"Breckenridge couldn't win with Jefferson on the ticket," retorts Atropos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

It was like being glanced at by Atropos, the third Fate, who cuts the thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

The dandy Atropos heaved a gusty sigh, and turned his hooded head to survey them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

But in those days I was devoting more time and attention to Clotho than to Atropos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

The Fates are named Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, and are the goddesses of destiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

But that makes me think of Atropos again, and the joke I am planning to play on her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

My eldest sister Atropos cuts the threads that they do not become too long and tangle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinning with glass.] Reference

I've no doubt they'd have told me, but Atropos intervened again, more firmly this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

Miss Eliza bit off her thread with as much decision as ever Atropos dares use in cutting hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

And Plato intimates the same thing under the names of the Fates, calling one Atropos, the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

"I doubt if Mistuh Comber is im-pressed by the rhetoric of the camp-meetin ', Clotho," says Atropos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

But I started to come to my feet, and Atropos raised his cane and gently pushed me back into my seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

Spun by Clotho, and I resent her; measured by Lachesis, and I deny her; cut by Atropos, and I fear her.    From Wordnik.com.  [bard Diary Entry] Reference

I'm quite in the notion of playing a practical joke on Atropos, and, perhaps, on Methuselah, while I'm about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

Lachesis who settled the lot of gods and mortals in life, and Atropos who cut the thread of life spun by Clotho.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference

Good luck to you, Joe, thinks I, if ever Atropos kicks the bucket unexpected and you become the widow's property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

Clotho grunted, Joe took his piece from my back, and Atropos eased his bulk on the table edge and leaned forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

"Those Kuklos operators are still in the Tombs, by the way, and if Atropos set other men to watch you … what of it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

"Those Kuklos operators are still in the Tombs, by the way, and if Atropos set other men to watch you ... what of it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

For laying in wait were the mysterious goddesses of Fate -- Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos -- one last shot denied to Curry.    From Wordnik.com.  [William E. Jackson Jr.: Sweet Caroline: The NCAA Odyssey of the Davidson Wildcats] Reference

I see upon our main-top that merciless hag Atropos, with her scissors new ground, ready to cut our threads all at one snip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

Lachesis and Clotho and Atropos, who accompany with their voices the harmony of the sirens — Lachesis singing of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference

Atropos slew young, as she slew John Clare in a mad – house, and James Thomson by the laudanum he took to drug disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A room of one's own] Reference

You know these ladies, reader; but here they are grander, gloomier, diviner than were our old friends Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Well, it mattered not one dam to me - and I realised that Atropos was watching me closely as he lighted another of his Regie gaspers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman and the angel of the lord]

The Fates were also three -- Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Fable] Reference