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DESTINY

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Traducere în limba română

destiny substantiv

1. destin, soartă, ursită;

the Man of Destiny omul destinului; Napoleon.

2. Destiny (mitol.) zeiţa destinului;

the Destinies ursitele, ursitoarele, Parcele.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

There were wishes at Randalls respecting Emma's destiny, but it was not desirable to have them suspected; and the quiet transition which Mr. Knightley soon afterwards made to What does Weston think of the weather; shall we have rain? convinced her that he had nothing more to say or surmise about Hartfield.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“Alas! Yes, my father,” replied I; “some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must live to fulfil it, or surely I should have died on the coffin of Henry.”

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had fulfilled my destiny.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The eyes—and it was my destiny to know them well—were large and handsome, wide apart as the true artist’s are wide, sheltering under a heavy brow and arched over by thick black eyebrows.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Though I had now extinguished my candle and was laid down in bed, I could not sleep for thinking of his look when he paused in the avenue, and told how his destiny had risen up before him, and dared him to be happy at Thornfield.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

If not in our dispositions, she presently added, with a look of true sensibility, there is a likeness in our destiny; the destiny which bids fair to connect us with two characters so much superior to our own.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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