And if there be one among women who disturbs the serenity we choose to think our due, she wears for us the sinister aspect of a confidential messenger between Nemesis and the parcae.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
We do not give that up till we are a hundred or till the parcae cut the thread of life.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
Father, mother, and sister, seated round the family hearth, fatal as some domestic parcae, had hatched their horrid scheme, while the helpless lad amused himself yonder in the great city, happily unconscious of the web that was being woven to enmesh him.
"Charlotte's Inheritance"
M. E. Braddon