Moreover, they never ceased commiserating each other for the wretched fate of having been assigned to the Caine.

And to the importunity of their persisted questionings he had finally given in; and so it came to pass that every one now knew the shameful story of his wretched fate.

A wretched alternate fate is revealed for Mary Hatch Bailey (played by Donna Reed) in the movie It's a Wonderful Life (1946): "She's an old maid.

Instead, we are to take the battle behind the lines, to attempt to defeat the enemy from within--and also to rescue our fellow Klingons from their wretched fate.

"Ah, but she was never in danger of such a wretched fate!"

If she is not saved from that wretched fate, I shall die despairing, I shall die cursing--" The Minister sternly stopped her before she could say the next word.

Ah, what a wretched fate is mine!

It was a conscious human decision, and had nothing to do with those wretched fates spinning your threads or lopping 'em off or whatever else they're supposed to do.

'It was my wretched fate,' said Yuanyuan, in an almost injured tone.

But Ponder's wretched fate was to look for patterns in an uncaring world.