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fateful Adjective having important, and usually disastrous, consequences fatefully adv
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fateful adjective 1. crucial, important, significant, critical, decisive, momentous, portentous << OPPOSITE unimportant Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Holding a clear recollection of these languid easterly sighs rippling unexpectedly against the run of the smooth swell, with no other warning than a ten-minutes' calm and a queer darkening of the coast-line, I cannot think, without a gasp of professional awe, of that fateful moment. Twice I have been back, seeking for that fateful spot in the hills, but unable to find it. Indeed, I always get something like a palpitation of the heart just before the priest utters those final fateful words, "I declare you man and-- wife. |
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