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a provident father plans for his children's education†
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If they were more provident and less perverse, ma'am, what would they do?† (source)
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Really, you are quite provident.† (source)
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You are a provident person, I see.† (source)
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He commuted his pension and provident fund to buy a Bharat bottle-sealing machine.† (source)
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Provident Hospital concentrated on medical services for Blacks.† (source)
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I haven't seen so much excitement since Alan Derring from the Daily Investor stood up at a Provident Assurance press conference and told everyone he was becoming a woman and wanted us all to call him Andrea.† (source)
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I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father, Which I did store to be my foster-nurse, When service should in my old limbs lie lame, And unregarded age in corners thrown; Take that: and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!† (source)
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"You mean all those people dying was provident?" said Daphne sharply.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Housewives of a provident turn of mind filled their cupboards with treacle as a medicine for bad air, and with home-made plasters called Flos Unguentorum for the rheumatics and musk-balls to smell.† (source)
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She continued, looking up into Captain Ashburnham's eyes: "It's because of that piece of paper that you're honest, sober, industrious, provident, and clean-lived.† (source)
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They exhibit, therefore, all the advantages and defects of such training; they are willing and good-natured, but not self-reliant, provident, or careful.† (source)
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Again: those nobles who had seen the coming storm in time, and anticipating plunder or confiscation, had made provident remittances to Tellson's, were always to be heard of there by their needy brethren.† (source)
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I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.† (source)
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