A three-year-old child with a large tag pinned across his little dress played with railroad-owned blocks; the matron, a sort of stout lachesis, with a string of keys at her belt, gray with years and the rather sweet tiredness of service, sorted towels at a rack.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
The old man did not speak again till supper-time, when he began asking his son an endless number of hypothetical questions on what might induce Miss Aldclyffe to listen to kinder terms; speaking of her now not as an unfair woman, but as a lachesis or Fate whose course it behoved nobody to condemn.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
When Er and the spirits arrived, their duty was to go at once to lachesis; but first of all there came a prophet who arranged them in order; then he took from the knees of lachesis lots and samples of lives, and having mounted a high pulpit, spoke as follows: 'Hear the word of lachesis, the daughter of Necessity.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato