Sentence examples for the thread of life from inspiring English sources

Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos are the spinner, the allotter and the cutter of the thread of life, respectively.

Three other demigoddesses with analogous functions are preserved in Latvian mythology Dēkla, protector of babies, Kārta, spinner of the thread of life, and Māra, goddess of fertility.

As the thread of life is being unraveled at a very steady pace, it has already become a part of our lives.

The project will map each of the estimated 50,000 human genes and spell out each letter in the book of the DNA, the thread of life, in the genes.

A stone fireplace by Nicholls features the Three Fates, spinning, measuring and cutting the thread of life.

The continuity that is the thread of life was gone and it stayed gone for a whole day and a half".

Like some ancient goddess holding in her hand all the threads of life, Miss Cameron is related to just about every important theme in the novel.

With most of his family still in Sardinia and Julka back in Russia with their two sons, Gramsci realised that letters were now his only means of keeping a grip on what he called "the threads of life".

"I never lost the thread of my life, the narrative," he said.

Each of his seven abandoned books on Cleopatra is cast as a pearl strung on the thread of his life.

Through Sandingham, a "failure" so haunted by memories of war that he can never pick up the thread of normal life, Mr. Booth reminds us that to succeed wholly in forgetting war's horrors is success of a perilous kind.