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(Old French fee), which itself comes from the Latin Fata, the goddess of fate.
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The knock on Fata is a lack of hockey sense and creativity but if he's put on a line with a top playmaker he could score
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The knock on Fata is a lack of hockey sense and creativity but if he's put on a line with a top playmaker he could score
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Even without it, the Skidoos have been foundering in soft six-foot drifts, and much of our energy for the past few hours has gone into pushing these infernal machines, pulling them, kicking them, cursing them, nudging them ever higher toward a peak called Fata lui Ilie, ever deeper into trouble.
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Should those who insist that they resist that "genetic predisposition" to overeat be called Fata-phobic?
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"Fata": lit. = a youth; a generous man, one of noble mind (as youth-tide should be).
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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I thought I saw a kind of Fata Morgana, green meadows, waving groves, a rustic home; but in the far distance -- I stared -- I stared -- a Fata
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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I thought I saw a kind of Fata Morgana, green meadows, waving groves, a rustic home; but in the far distance -- I stared -- I stared -- a Fata
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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I thought I saw a kind of Fata Morgana, green meadows, waving groves, a rustic home; but in the far distance -- I stared -- I stared -- a
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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The funniest of all was that when the bell rang for the big recess, we would all run to the "Fata" this is what we called the school canteen those days, bought what we wanted, but the girls had to hurry and get to the girls 'yard as we were forbidden to be in the boys yard for too long.
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