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Every BULLET has its billet
Fate determines who shall be killed; quot. 1922 implies more generally that fate plays a part in all human affairs.
1575
Fruits of War
I. 155
Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall, That every bullet hath a lighting place.
1765
Journal
6 June (1912) V. 130
He never received one wound. So true is the odd saying of King William [III], that ‘every bullet has its billet’.
1846
Romance of War
II.iii.
'Tis the fortune of war:—every bullet has its billet,—their fate to-day may be ours tomorrow.
1922
Ulysses
366
The ball rolled down to her as if it understood. Every bullet has its billet.
1932
Public School Murder
xi. iv. 237
It is said that every bullet finds its billet. I am afraid this is yet another instance of a shaft at random sent finding a mark the archer never meant.
death
;
fate and fatalism
1575Fruits of War
I. 155
Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall, That every bullet hath a lighting place.
1765
Journal
6 June (1912) V. 130
He never received one wound. So true is the odd saying of King William [III], that ‘every bullet has its billet’.
1846
Romance of War
II.iii.
'Tis the fortune of war:—every bullet has its billet,—their fate to-day may be ours tomorrow.
1922
Ulysses
366
The ball rolled down to her as if it understood. Every bullet has its billet.
1932
Public School Murder
xi. iv. 237
It is said that every bullet finds its billet. I am afraid this is yet another instance of a shaft at random sent finding a mark the archer never meant.
death;
fate and fatalism
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