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  • The day providential to itself.†   (source)
  • It makes you believe in Providence, doesn't it?†   (source)
  • And then, somewhere outside Providence, in an abandoned, grassy field, the train stops.†   (source)
  • The Fuhrer owes his life to "Divine Providence": he escaped, unfortunately, with only a few minor burns and scratches.†   (source)
  • "I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence…"†   (source)
  • Surely misfortune could scarcely have exceeded this last blow… We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, hut bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last… 88†   (source)
  • "Providentially, no one," Al said.†   (source)
  • He always made sure his kids never got into trouble, was concerned about money, and trusted the providence of the Holy Father to do the rest.†   (source)
  • By good luck or Providence our station wagon made it that far, and Bethlehem turned out to be an open market for Evangelical Baptists.†   (source)
  • Two long, white hands shot out protectively in front of me, and the van shuddered to a stop a foot from my face, the large hands fitting providentially into a deep dent in the side of the van's body.†   (source)
  • Boston Corbett came forward, snapped to attention, saluted Conger, and proclaimed that he had shot Booth, and Providence had directed him to do it.†   (source)
  • I was feeling more depressed than ever when providence came to my aid again at the last moment, this time in the form of Helena Lewicka, Mrs Jaworska's sister-in-law.†   (source)
  • Up in Providence.†   (source)
  • But in time he came to suppose that perhaps its disorder obeyed an obscure determination of Divine Providence.†   (source)
  • Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted.†   (source)
  • The Providence?†   (source)
  • You never can tell, Hilde, but if it is truly so, then one must certainly ask whether or not God's providence is behind everything.†   (source)
  • It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe.†   (source)
  • Day after day he marches into town, negotiating by telegram, and by the following Friday the son has agreed to meet us in Providence and take custody of the old man.†   (source)
  • Such snatches as you could hem told of the suffering of the divinity, of the Exile of Providence, who, according to the cabala, awaits his deliverance in that of man.†   (source)
  • Although she was not particularly religious, the mother liked to make her plots providential.†   (source)
  • Sister Johnnie was the Providence that was never known to fail.†   (source)
  • Nothing …. saved her from being crushed to death in a mad attempt to find her children but the providential appearance of an acquaintance, who told her that the children were all safe at the St. James Hotel.†   (source)
  • Morena made a few more attempts to express her need for a real woman, perhaps thinking that I was too dense to get her meaning, but my response remained the same—I was sure that the right woman was out there somewhere in the correctional system and that providence would deliver her to Danbury with all haste.†   (source)
  • This sure beat flying his DC-9 from Washington to Providence and Hartford and back every day for U.S. Air!†   (source)
  • Call it what you like, fate, luck, providence.†   (source)
  • But even that is providence, for if I'd found the harbor earlier, when I was supposed to, I'd never have found you."†   (source)
  • The crawlway was Yossarian's lifeline to outside from a plane about to fall, but Yossarian swore at it with seething antagonism, reviled it as an obstacle put there by providence as part of the plot that would destroy him.†   (source)
  • There it is: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.†   (source)
  • What providence had brought us to this spot?†   (source)
  • The fact that this Thomas Hunter not only had such a dream but that he'd proceeded to the CDC with it seemed to suggest providence.†   (source)
  • Cesar swore that he'd never become like them, that he'd never work the beet fields or sit around muttering passages of the Bible while praying for Providence.†   (source)
  • I trust you are well, Henry, and ready for the responsibility that has been thrust upon us by Divine Providence?†   (source)
  • He would trust to Providence and his high sense of duty.†   (source)
  • The Midway Drive-In Theater is long gone now, as if, by providence, someone saw fit to remove the scene of so many lovely lies.†   (source)
  • I couldn't face going back to Providence after Italy, so I decided to give mainstream academia a try.†   (source)
  • Strange providence!†   (source)
  • We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-1's and V-2's late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all.†   (source)
  • In Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi writes, "Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence."†   (source)
  • She had not had time to be aware of him, except as of a providential comrade-in-competence; now she glanced at him with conscious attention.†   (source)
  • But the block-long pile of death and destruction providentially spared the 48 children asleep in the Janet Home, virtually next door to the ill-fated apartment house.†   (source)
  • Dignitaries and society folk traveling from as far as Boston, Providence, and New York had tried to secure seats inside the courtroom.†   (source)
  • Smees are a proud race, lovingly nourished by Nature's succulent goodness until mighty Providence should see fit to— Meaning, they grow as a grub in the dirt until a big rain washes 'em away," interrupted Cooper.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he asked Lelia what a municipal employee did on trips to Providence or Ann Arbor or Richmond.†   (source)
  • [I] am the more willing to kill as many of them as God in his providence will permit me.†   (source)
  • Providence blessed it with a variety of soils, watered with countless streams to delight and fulfill the needs of its inhabitants.†   (source)
  • In his Thanksgiving Proclamation in New York on October 3, 1789, Washington, the very first president of the United States, said, "Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and experience."†   (source)
  • Mr Mason did not approve of Aunt Cora, an ex-slaveowner who had escaped misery, a flier in the face of Providence.†   (source)
  • Not a dog barked nor a car drove by the five or six blocks to Bill's trailer on Providence Place.†   (source)
  • Fishing was not only recreation but the necessary daily harvest of a crop providentially swimming at their feet.†   (source)
  • Providentially, though, it was music that helped save her, as it had in the past.†   (source)
  • Hartford and Providence and such are big cities, bustling with manufacturing, lousy with traffic.†   (source)
  • The following week he called on customers in Providence and Newport, then came back to Boston and began his letter with bad news.†   (source)
  • … But Providence … Koka!†   (source)
  • I can never be sufficiently grateful to Providence that my father and my mother did not join in this general desertion.†   (source)
  • You don't question Providence.†   (source)
  • Thish yer comes of trust'n to Providence.   (source)
    providence = luck; or "God's intervention"
  • ...for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.   (source)
    providence = luck; or God's intervention
  • Providence had stood by me this fur all right, but I was hard and tight aground now.   (source)
  • I judged I could see that there was two Providences, and a poor chap would stand considerable show with the widow's Providence, but if Miss Watson's got him there warn't no help for him any more.   (source)
    providence = (views of) God's plan or intervention
  • Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again.   (source)
    providence = God's plan
  • They couldn't hit no project that suited exactly; so at last the duke said he reckoned he'd lay off and work his brains an hour or two and see if he couldn't put up something on the Arkansaw village; and the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way—meaning the devil, I reckon.   (source)
    providence = luck; or "God's intervention"
  • It is Providence that put them in our path.†   (source)
  • "For any woman with a shred of sense, that man is a gift from Divine Providence," said the nun.†   (source)
  • I suppose we believed so hard in God's providence that we just accepted miracles in our favor.†   (source)
  • 'What seemed like the hand of Providence, Annie?' he, managed.†   (source)
  • He longed to end the campaign, but the success of it made him sure that Providence had other wishes.†   (source)
  • Something — luck, fate, providence — had been trying to save him.†   (source)
  • The Kellogg girl moved from Chamberlain to Providence, Rhode Island, in the fall of 1978.†   (source)
  • Talked him into meeting us in Providence to take Camel off our hands.†   (source)
  • I doubt not Providence demands it of me.†   (source)
  • Cedric decided he wanted to see some friends in Providence.†   (source)
  • Let us hope for providence in that area.†   (source)
  • Providence gave this one connected country to one united people.†   (source)
  • I wish you the best of luck and the blessings of providence in your defense.†   (source)
  • He's thought a lot about Brown lately and about his desire to get back to Providence.†   (source)
  • If we leave before Providence, Camel's done for.†   (source)
  • "So, you're going to take off after Providence.†   (source)
  • Then she missed the train-Amtrak's 10:30 P.M. sleeper from Washington to Providence.†   (source)
  • I've heard he's working at the GAP in Providence.†   (source)
  • Cedric sings loudly, and Barbara, guiding the van into downtown Providence, sings along.†   (source)
  • "No, sir, ummrn, there aren't many churches up in Providence …"†   (source)
  • Tomorrow he will begin packing for Tuesday's journey to Providence.†   (source)
  • It is commendable to wish to relieve human suffering, but surely the insane, like idiots and cripples, owe their state to Almighty Providence, and one should not attempt to reverse decisions which are certainly just, although inscrutable to us.†   (source)
  • One of the reasons I brought you back was because it seemed like more than a coincidence …. it seemed moral like the hand of Providence.†   (source)
  • Hilde agreed with Alberto that he was going a bit too far, comparing himself with God and Providence.†   (source)
  • But we must all content ourselves with the lot in life, in which Providence has seen fit to place us.†   (source)
  • As Ishmael came their way a south breeze blew and caused the mooring lines of boats to creak—the Advancer, the Providence, the Ocean Mist, the Torvanger—all standard San Piedro gill-netters.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Providence is deliberately biding its time getting rid of Hider, since it's much easier, and cheaper, for the Allies to let the impeccable Germans kill each other off.†   (source)
  • A year is how long it's taken me to quietly wander round on my own and re-purchase the frauds still out, a delicate proceeding which I've found is best conducted in person: three or four trips a month, New Jersey and Oyster Bay and Providence and New Canaan, and—further afield —Miami, Houston, Dallas, Charlottesville, Atlanta, where at the invitation of my lovely client Mindy, the wife of an auto-parts magnate named Earl, I spent three fairly congenial days in the guest house of a…†   (source)
  • Somehow she managed to hold on to it for years; it's moved with her from Providence to Paris to New York, a secret talisman on her shelves that she would glance at now and again, still faintly flattered by his peculiar pursuit of her, and always faintly curious as to what had become of him.†   (source)
  • He waited in the middle of the stage, as imperturbable as the apostle of a Divine Providence less dramatic than ours, and as soon as it was quiet he read the winning poem.†   (source)
  • Can't you see how he has the effrontery to compare his own shabby surveillance of us with God's providence?†   (source)
  • Steering wide of Harbor Rocks, bucking the sea wind head-on at seven knots, he ran with the tide race pushing hard behind him and fell in with the Kasilof, the Antarctic, and the Providence, all of which were making for Ship Channel, too: half the fleet was headed there.†   (source)
  • But as we circled to receive our share of providence, the fat flanks of the magnificent beasts we'd stalked on the hill shrank to parched sinew, the gristle of drought-starved carcasses.†   (source)
  • Men, by nature and the decree of Providence, have a certain latitude allowed them; but fidelity to the marriage vow is surely the chief requirement in a woman.†   (source)
  • Not even Dr. Juvenal Urbino, with all his prestige, could persuade them to move it where it would not disturb anyone, until his proven complicity with Divine Providence interceded on his behalf.†   (source)
  • When the curlew sang five o'clock along with the local roosters, Dr. Juvenal Urbino commended himself body and soul to Divine Providence because he did not have the heart to live another day in his rubble-strewn homeland.†   (source)
  • He was very glad that the instrument used by Divine Providence for that overwhelming revelation had been Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, whom he had always considered a saint unaware of his own state of grace.†   (source)
  • But he feared the old method: a note slipped under the door by an unknown hand could be effective, not only because it guaranteed the double anonymity of sender and receiver, but because its time-honored ancestry permitted one to attribute to it some kind of metaphysical connection to the designs of Divine Providence.†   (source)
  • Not be so thankful or beholden to me, necessarily, but at least she'd be somewhat appreciative of the providence of institutions that brought her from the squalor of the orphanage—the best of which can be only so happy—to an orderly, welcoming suburban home in America, with a hopeful father of like-enough race and sufficient means.†   (source)
  • Jose Buendia, trying to surprise Divine Providence in the midst of the cataclysm, was the one who least understood it.†   (source)
  • Still, the presidency would be a "glorious reward" for all his service to the country, should Providence allot him the task.†   (source)
  • Here's Divine Providence," he hawked.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, yet again, circumstances— fate, luck, Providence, the hand of God, as would be said so often—intervened.†   (source)
  • He was ready to keep this up for years, he told her, for "I cannot believe Providence intends to destroy this Nation, this great asylum for the oppressed of all other nations and build a slave Oligarchy on the ruins thereof."†   (source)
  • On April 5, the day the commander paraded into Providence, it seemed all Rhode Island had come to catch sight of him.†   (source)
  • But now she had emerged into a bleak winter world where Uncle Pros was not, where Johnnie was powerless, and where she had been allowed by an unkind Providence to work havoc with her own life and the lives of her little ones; and her illness was as the tears of the girl with a shattered toy.†   (source)
  • It appears like this inheritance was designed by Providence for a band of brethren united by the strongest ties.†   (source)
  • We cannot be sufficiently thankful to a bountiful Providence that the horrors of famine are not added to those of war.†   (source)
  • You were sent by Divine Providence.†   (source)
  • FAST RIDERS CARRIED THE NEWS to Providence and Newport, Hartford and New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, then on to Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, 1, Too arduous miles from Boston.†   (source)
  • Providence is smiling on us.†   (source)
  • They finally lost respect for him, made fun of him, and in his last months they no longer called him Don Aureliano, as they had always done, but they called him Mr. Divine Providence right to his face.†   (source)
  • The people of America now had "the best opportunity and the great-est trust in their hands" that Providence ever ordained to so small a number since Adam and Eve.†   (source)
  • He did not "lament or repine at any act of Providence," he told Joseph Reed, for "in great measure" he had become a convert to the view of the poet Alexander Pope that "whatever is, is right."†   (source)
  • Finally, to Jefferson's concluding line was added the phrase "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence," an addition that Adams assuredly welcomed.†   (source)
  • Consult Divine Providence.†   (source)
  • "He's meeting us in Providence.†   (source)
  • He agreed with Dr. Gallaudet and others at the Yale'Divinity School that the tribesmen were delivered to America's shores by the Lord God Himself in an act of divine providence so that the full Christianization of Africa might begin in earnest.†   (source)
  • Writing privately, however, he allowed to Lund Washington that "Providence, or some good honest fellow, has done more for us than we were disposed to do for ourselves."†   (source)
  • But not until Providence.†   (source)
  • Regard us then as being placed by providence under your protection and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness.†   (source)
  • Endowed with means that had been reserved for Divine Providence in former times, they changed the pattern of the rams, accelerated the cycle of harvest, and moved the river from where it had always been and put it with its white stones and icy currents on the other side of the town, behind the cemetery.†   (source)
  • "We have nothing, my dear sir, to depend upon, but the protection of a kind Providence and unanimity among ourselves," he wrote to John Adams from his Broadway headquarters.†   (source)
  • At first Aureliano Segundo would spend three days of the week shut up in what had been his rancher's office drawing ticket after ticket, Painting with a fair skill a red cow, a green pig, or a group of blue hens, according to the animal being raffled, and he would sketch out a good imitation of printed numbers and the name that Petra Cotes thought good to call the business: Divine Providence Raffles .†   (source)
  • "The resolution which has taken place in this nation," he told Edmund Jenings, "is the result of a vast number and variety of events, comprising the great scheme of Providence…… When I recollect the circumstances, I am amazed, and feel that it is no work of mine."†   (source)
  • If it be determined in thy Providence that thousands of our fellow creatures shall this day be slain, let thy wrath be appeased, and in mercy grant that victory be on the side of our suffering, bleeding country.†   (source)
  • "They met, they talked, they parted," wrote one of Howe's staff, "and now nothing remains but to fight it out against a set of the most determined hypocrites and demagogues, compiled of the refuse of the colonies, that ever were permitted by Providence to be the scourge of a country."†   (source)
  • Now, in the dismal aftermath of defeat, the idea of risking the fate of America in defense of New York seemed so senseless that submitting to the "dispensations of Providence," as he said, was about the only recourse left.†   (source)
  • If the people now were to have "unbounded power," and as the people were quite as capable of corruption as "the great," and thus high risks were involved, he would submit all his hopes and fears to an overruling providence, "in which unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe."†   (source)
  • She found she missed him more than she expected when he left for college and, in the weeks between phone calls to Providence, often thought about why.†   (source)
  • "Any calamity inflicted by the hand of Providence, it would become me in silence to submit to," she wrote some weeks later, "but when I behold misery and distress, disgrace and poverty brought upon a family by intemperance, my heart bleeds at every pore."†   (source)
  • While one writer in the New England Chronicle declared, "Providence favored us," another in the Massachusetts Spy assured his readers that the defeat on Long Island and consequent distress were "loud speaking testimonies of the displeasure and anger of Almighty God against a sinful people."†   (source)
  • Butch squints, clearly having never heard of it, and Cedric helps him along, "tt's in Providence, Rhode Island……It's Ivy League and all."†   (source)
  • Thus it would read: And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.†   (source)
  • The rain is thunderous, flooding dirty downtown Providence as the night train from Washington arrives at noon on Saturday.†   (source)
  • A newly completed bastion at Cobble Hill, below Prospect Hill and fully a half mile nearer to Boston, was described in the Providence Gazette as "the most perfect piece of fortification that the American army has constructed during the present campaign."†   (source)
  • Heaven hath decreed that tottering empire Britain to irretrievable ruin and thanks to God, since Providence hath so determined, America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons….†   (source)
  • In this case it was imagery from a famous speech of the seventeenth century by one of Cromwell's soldiers, Richard Rumbold, who, from the scaffold as he was about to be executed, declared, "I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.†   (source)
  • She haltingly recalls what it was like taking Zayd and Bear out to dinner on an impromptu "business trip" through Providence three weeks earlier.†   (source)
  • When he awakes, just before midnight, Barbara tells him that they're just a few miles from Providence.†   (source)
  • As he had often before in his life, Washington eased the stress of waiting by catching up with his correspondence, writing again to Joseph Reed and to a young black poet, Phillis Wheatley, then living in Providence, who had sent him a poem written in his honor: "Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side / Thy every action let the goddess guide."†   (source)
  • If I shall be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies; for surely if we get well through this month, it must be for want of their knowing the disadvantages we labor under.†   (source)
  • He wants to ask if he's found a church in Providence, about how things are going in the dorm, but he feels uneasy prying into those realms.†   (source)
  • Stephan is eating a barbecued chicken sandwich with a friend, a thirty-something white guy who's visiting Providence.†   (source)
  • "If you wanna know the truth," she whispers, betraying an up-the-hard-way East Providence patois, "we've been scraping it off the plate all night."†   (source)
  • They turn from Washington's beltway onto Interstate 95, the road that will lead, seven hours later, into downtown Providence.†   (source)
  • It's a part of Providence that Cedric has never seen, and he looks intently out of the bus's scratched, cloudy window.†   (source)
  • I think it'd get me off College Hill and, like, it might be good to do researching at a school in Providence, which, I guess, is what you do in that class.†   (source)
  • 10 A BURSTING HEART Five blocks downwind of campus, just before the road curves to the gritty row houses of East Providence, is a pillared neo-Geor-gian mansion.†   (source)
  • Two hours after the night sleeper from Providence arrived on Sunday morning, Cedric was already in church, with Barbara beaming and a hundred pairs of eyes on him.†   (source)
  • Sometime today—a sunny, white-hot Tuesday at the end of August-Barbara will drive her son to what she imagines is the cool, green north: Providence, Rhode Island.†   (source)
  • And, by the mid-summer after graduation, I began to understand how this job-helping to manage the Salvation Army office in Providence-made a kind of sense.†   (source)
  • Barbara planned ahead, this time, and the procession-including Cedric's sisters Leslie, Neddie, her son, Lawrence, Clarence Taylor and his wife-all descended on Providence.†   (source)
  • And she does, sitting on the couch. in the TV's glow as her mind wanders far forward on a freshly cut path that now seems to pass through Providence, Rhode Island.†   (source)
  • But there's this class-an education fieldwork seminar, where he'll visit some school in the inner city of Providence, keep a journal, and write a couple of papers-that is sure to present its own distinct challenges.†   (source)
  • It's nearly noon by the time they get to College Hill, a steep slope on top of which Brown sits like a cloud city above the gritty ethnic enclaves, Italian restaurants, and aging factories of Providence.†   (source)
  • The bulk of the reporting entailed spending much of the 95-96 academic year in Providence, Rhode Island, a time when a new friend-the full-living Dr. Cornelius "Skip" Granai-came forward with an ideal pied-a-terre near the Brown campus.†   (source)
  • His new life in Providence?†   (source)
  • Infrequent outings-to church, mostly, and one small family gathering at his grandmother's house-only ended up making him feel more obtuse, as people he'd sometimes known his whole life asked off-target, generally uninformed questions about his new life in Providence.†   (source)
  • But Spring Weekend also draws townies from Providence, along with kids from colleges in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and other states along the East Coast, a crushing crowd of foreigners that alters Brown's social character.†   (source)
  • Everything was cordial, and it was nice to have him with her at church-everyone so proud of himbut the privacy zone that once extended to the borders of his small bedroom had grown to envelop a whole mysterious life in Providence.†   (source)
  • Not wanting to spend money on long-distance calls to check on hotels in Providence, she went with what she knew-1-800-HOLIDAY-committing to a budgetstraining rate of $96 a night at the Holiday Inn in downtown Providence.†   (source)
  • I'm in Providence.†   (source)
  • He has ventured a few times before to this part of Providence, just beyond Helaine's office and the Georgian brick homes of professors: fifteen or so square blocks of turn-of-the-century row houses and squat apartments, broken by clusters of sole proprietorships, jewelers, drugstores, and barbers, in buildings charging modest rent.†   (source)
  • Four students-one black, one white, one Asian, one Hispanic; two boys, two girls-hoist a large "Class of 1999" banner, brown with red piping, and lead a snaking line of chatting, mostly backpacked students through the ornate iron Van Wickle Gates, the uphill entryway to campus from downtown Providence.†   (source)
  • Just when she had begun to lose faith that something would come along, providence had assumed the shape of Charlie Sussman and smiled upon us.†   (source)
  • The Providence Journal called their action "little short of treason" and the New York Times editorialized that "The odium of treasonable purpose will rest upon their names forevermore."†   (source)
  • She had a hungry mind and she read greedily, fairy tales mostly, and books like Sarah Crewe in which poor unfortunate children were brought happiness by the hand of beneficent Providence.†   (source)
  • At this moment, in her defeat, however, she was already laying plans for another campaign, a longer, harder struggle to come up from the bottom without help from the sort of Providence Oluf had represented.†   (source)
  • He said that his life had begun and ended with two providential events.†   (source)
  • In spite of everything, the delay had been a providential accident for them.†   (source)
  • Before morning, a "peculiar providential" fog set in.†   (source)
  • I understand he was wounded in the course of the hostilities, and although providentially now making a recovery, has not yet regained sufficient strength to be able to complete his task.†   (source)
  • But when at last he walked again, his ankle still painful and his back raw, he had more than enough reasons to believe that destiny had rewarded his perseverance with a providential fall.†   (source)
  • Their meeting at the memorial Mass was a providential opportunity for her to let Florentino Ariza know that she, too, thanks to his letters of encouragement, was prepared to erase the past.†   (source)
  • That was why she did not treat him like a difficult old man but as a senile baby, and that deception was providential for the two of them because it put them beyond the reach of pity.†   (source)
  • It was providential.†   (source)
  • She was an unusual person, obviously, and for Deo to have run into her on his grocery delivery rounds was a great piece of luck, maybe even -- in Sharon's presence, I was tempted into thinking this -- providential.†   (source)
  • "And who can object to Mr. Adams?" asked the paper which, after enumerating his many abilities and attainments, observed that he happened also to be "providentially" unemployed.†   (source)
  • To Hamilton, he expressed a deep melancholy that "a fabric so goodly, erected under so many providential circumstances," should be "wracked by controversy and brought to the edge of collapse."†   (source)
  • And this was proved by the fact that no one ever threw himself on Providence completely.†   (source)
  • Only Providence can know more about Sir Hawley Butts than that.†   (source)
  • It was tempting Providence to mention death.†   (source)
  • Such matters are in the hands of an almighty Providence, to which we all feel thankful.†   (source)
  • These are differing views of the same dreadful Providence.†   (source)
  • And who knows? there was the War now; who knows but what the fatality and the fatality's victims did not both think, hope, that the War would settle the matter, leave free one of the two irreconciliables, since it would not be the first time that youth has taken catastrophe as a direct act of Providence for the sole purpose of solving a personal problem which youth itself could not solve.†   (source)
  • He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties.†   (source)
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