 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1924 - 460 pages
...mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or iachesis when she cuts it. In the hour of battle I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say, the... | |
 | Lauran Paine - 1927 - 328 pages
...would speak about the weather. It is my opinion that he would rob you or cheat you or murder you with no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it. He would steal a thousand head of cattle from Kidman or a poddy calf from Hughie with the same measure... | |
 | Sidney Dark - Europe - 1928 - 374 pages
...mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more...she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it ... He achieved the highest deed of daring, or deepest calculation of thought, as he performed the... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1853 - 868 pages
...mistress and left her ; he be t rayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachenis when she cuts it. In tlie hour of battle, I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say,... | |
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... like fate. He performed a treason or a court-bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered... 
