providential

• There seems some design in it all; and yet one is so impotent to grasp what it can be Yet I suppose no one has failed to notice several small coincidences in their lives, of what might almost be called a providential kind I read in a book about Laennec's method, without the vaguest idea of who Laennec was, or what his method was. —  Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge
• The conjunction seemed almost providential--"as if." —  Industrial Biography
• The circumstance appeared providential, and why should they, therefore, fancy that they were to be allowed to perish The sea continued calm, and a downpour of rain gave them a sufficient amount of fresh water, which they caught in their hats and caps, to quench their thirst. —  The Three Commanders
• It approves itself to us as providential, and enlivens our hope and trust, that an ordinance, thus graciously protected for so many hundred years, will continue unto the end, and that "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it I shall now bring these remarks to an end. —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8)
• He was thus led to believe that the shipwreck was providential, as, had he sailed away, he should not have heard of its vast wealth. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold

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