kismet

• His face was lean and haggard, and the brown parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones; his long, brown hair and beard were all flecked and dashed with white; his eyes were sunken in his head, and burned with an unnatural lustre; while the hand which grasped his rifle was hardly more fleshy than that of a skeleton. —  A Study in Scarlet
• It was still hard for him to hear her admit that she had set him up, that their meeting wasn't kismet or the romantic happenstance he wished it had been. —  The Alibi
• Odd Rods (in another odd coincidental bit of kismet, a reader of Branded asked me to help him identify this sticker card set this past month!) —  Branded in the 80s!
• The stars, or the fates or Kâli, or whatever you like to term your kismet, your portion of good and evil, allotted me a somewhat happier existence than generally falls to the share of young slaves in —  Mr. Isaacs
• "Do you believe in kismet, Mister Valentine?" —  Loaded Dice

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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