Sample Sentences forprovidence (editor-reviewed)
providence as in: divine providence
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On the eve of battle, he prayed that providence was in our favor.providence = luck; or God's plan
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Providence has been good to me.
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But I must say Providence was kind enough to burn down that old mausoleum of mine, I'm too old to keep it up— (source)Providence = God's plan
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PUTNAM: It is a providence the thing is out now! (source)providence = resulting from God's intervention or plan
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Marilla did not look as if she thought Providence had much to do with the matter. (source)Providence = God's intervention
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"I have settled it all;" and then Teddy's mother picked him up from the dust and hugged him, crying that he had saved Teddy from death, and Teddy's father said that he was a providence, and Teddy looked on with big scared eyes. (source)providence = luck; or God's plan
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Sometimes, when Providence is not so kind, I... (source)Providence = luck; or God's plan
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He certainly viewed it as providential that when Socrates held forth in the agora and Jesus on the Mount, someone in the audience had the presence of mind to set their words down for posterity.† (source)
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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)
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I have always considered it as one of God's special providences that Ellen screamed till she was carried back to jail.† (source)
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Thish yer comes of trust'n to Providence. (source)Providence = luck; or "God's intervention"
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Although she was not particularly religious, the mother liked to make her plots providential.† (source)
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Providentially, though, it was music that helped save her, as it had in the past.† (source)
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They are a kind of providences that you'll have to be pretty sparing of, Master Sam.† (source)
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If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom... (source)providence = plan of God
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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)
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