It represents Apollo as descending into the realms of darkness and pleading with the Fate Sisters for the life of Admetus, the thread of which atropos is about to clip; and shows how he obtained for him a conditional reprieve by intoxicating the sisters with wine.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
The inexorable atropos brandished her scissors, and at one snip severed the thread asunder.
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames
Everywhere the shears of atropos were busy, and never could the cut threads be joined again.
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton