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  • He found as provident a host and a fresh horse.†   (source)
  • If they were more provident and less perverse, ma'am, what would they do?†   (source)
  • That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They are careless because they have not found that it pays to be careful; they are improvident because the improvident ones of their acquaintance get on about as well as the provident.†   (source)
  • But, in spite of good Mr. Higginson's congratulatory eloquence, this appeared to be the one thing which Colonel Pyncheon, provident and sagacious as he was, had allowed to go at loose ends.†   (source)
  • Fifine went off in a cab, as we have known more exalted persons of her nation to do under similar circumstances: but, more provident or lucky than these, she secured not only her own property, but some of her mistress's (if indeed that lady could be said to have any property at all)β€”and not only carried off the trinkets before alluded to, and some favourite dresses on which she had long kept her eye, but four richly gilt Louis Quatorze candlesticks, six gilt albums, keepsakes†   (source)
  • 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)
  • You are a provident person, I see.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • It was partly to this vague fear that Marner was indebted for protecting him from the persecution that his singularities might have drawn upon him, but still more to the fact that, the old linen-weaver in the neighbouring parish of Tarley being dead, his handicraft made him a highly welcome settler to the richer housewives of the district, and even to the more provident cottagers, who had their little stock of yarn at the year's end.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Really, you are quite provident.†   (source)
  • The insinuating traveller (who evinced a provident anxiety to get his full share of the supper), wiping some drops of wine from his moustache with a piece of bread, joined the conversation.†   (source)
  • The exhausted females, after receiving some light refreshments from the provident stores of Paul and the old man, now sought their repose, leaving their more stout companions at liberty to provide for their own necessities.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Each individual stands apart in solitary weakness; but society at large is active, provident, and powerful: the performances of private persons are insignificant, those of the State immense.†   (source)
  • Besides, the provident law has deprived you of the power to disinherit me, at least entirely, as it has also of the power to compel me to marry Monsieur This or Monsieur That.†   (source)
  • The most preoccupied of the four friends was certainly d'Artagnan, although he, in his quality of Guardsman, would be much more easily equipped than Messieurs the Musketeers, who were all of high rank; but our Gascon cadet was, as may have been observed, of a provident and almost avaricious character, and with that (explain the contradiction) so vain as almost to rival Porthos.†   (source)
  • He had an amazing satisfaction in entrusting her with these errands, and appeared to consider it equivalent to making the most methodical and provident arrangements.†   (source)
  • [*] Now, in passing through this room, Andrea proved himself not only to be clever and intelligent, but also provident, for he helped himself to the most valuable of the ornaments before him†   (source)
  • Appendix G We read in Jefferson's "Memoirs" as follows:β€” "At the time of the first settlement of the English in Virginia, when land was to be had for little or nothing, some provident persons having obtained large grants of it, and being desirous of maintaining the splendor of their families, entailed their property upon their descendants.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • For being assured that there be causes of all things that have arrived hitherto, or shall arrive hereafter; it is impossible for a man, who continually endeavoureth to secure himselfe against the evill he feares, and procure the good he desireth, not to be in a perpetuall solicitude of the time to come; So that every man, especially those that are over provident, are in an estate like to that of Prometheus.†   (source)
  • Yet, by experience taught, we know how good,
    And of our good and of our dignity
    How provident he is; how far from thought
    To make us less, bent rather to exalt
    Our happy state, under one head more near
    United.†   (source)
  • True, madam; and, to comfort you with chance, Assure yourself, after our ship did split, When you, and those poor number sav'd with you, Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself,β€” Courage and hope both teaching him the practice,β€” To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea; Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves So long as I could see.†   (source)
  • But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention.†   (source)
  • First crept
    The parsimonious emmet, provident
    Of future; in small room large heart enclosed;
    Pattern of just equality perhaps
    Hereafter, joined in her popular tribes
    Of commonalty: Swarming next appeared
    The female bee, that feeds her husband drone
    Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells
    With honey stored: The rest are numberless,
    And thou their natures knowest, and gavest them names,
    Needless to thee repeated; nor unknown
    The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field,
    Of huge extent sometimes, with brazen eyes
    And hairy mane terrifick, though to thee
    Not noxious, but obedient at thy call.†   (source)
  • What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against the tyranny of their own passions?†   (source)
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