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providing carefully for the future — often by saving money- I had thought my parents as tediously provident, but when they offered to pay for my college I appreciated their foresight.
- a provident father plans for his children's education
- If they were more provident and less perverse, ma'am, what would they do?Dickens, Charles -- Hard Times
- You are a provident person, I see.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Really, you are quite provident.Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- "You mean all those people dying was provident?" said Daphne sharply.Terry Pratchett -- Nation
- That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- But she soon saw how likely it was that Lucy, in her self-provident care, in her haste to secure him, should overlook every thing but the risk of delay.Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- Really, you are quite provident.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Pallas Athena and Zeus All Provident will see you through, bemusing our young friends.Homer -- The Odyssey
- From every provident point of view his mother was so undoubtedly right, that he was not without a sickness of heart in finding he could shake her.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- If they were more provident and less perverse, ma'am, what would they do?Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
- It seems I have always been fortunate to be in a certain provident time and place, which must be my sole skill, and worth, and luck.Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
- They exhibit, therefore, all the advantages and defects of such training; they are willing and good-natured, but not self-reliant, provident, or careful.W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
- He found as provident a host and a fresh horse.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- You are a provident person, I see.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- He commuted his pension and provident fund to buy a Bharat bottle-sealing machine.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- And when he clamps a sympathetic paw on your shoulder you feel he is some provident force come to guide you out of old despond.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- As far as I can see, it will be your chief diversion hereafter; unless Linton make amends for other losses: and your provident parent appears to fancy he may.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
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