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  • He declares his songs heavensent, and yet he also constructs them himself.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Alan Smart 2009

  • He declares his songs heavensent, and yet he also constructs them himself.

    The Essential Michael Jackson? Alan Smart 2009

  • Both of us were wont to spend excessive portions of every day planning, purchasing ingredients for, and preparing our evening meals, and such a collaboration would be heavensent.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • To the majority, the leaders above all who needed all the time possible to improve the combat readiness of their commands, the extended period in waiting was welcome, a heavensent opportunity to smooth out the rough edges among troops who were conditioned to barrack life.

    First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984

  • Who are there left then to be delighted with this heavensent allotment?

    The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Spiritualists and Theosophists talk of a Dominant Self, and an Astral body, and of gleams of heavensent insight.

    Cobwebs of Thought Arachne

  • Fanny's hunger revived as she took the food, and now she was waiting ungratefully for them to be gone that she might start on her heavensent meal.

    The Happy Foreigner Enid Bagnold 1935

  • At last, the boat being come near enough and the sea very smooth, I waded out and, watching my chance, clambered aboard over the bows and came, all dripping, eager to welcome this heavensent stranger and thus beheld the boat very foul of blood and him pale and hollow-cheeked, his eyes dim and sunken; moreover his rich armour was battered and dinted, whiles about one leg was knotted a bloody scarf.

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • But the sea was not quick enough to balk our folk of their salvage: all day long -- even while the ship was going to pieces -- they swarmed upon her; and they loaded their punts again and again, fearlessly boarding, and with infinite patience and courage managed to get their heavensent plunder ashore.

    Doctor Luke of the Labrador Norman Duncan 1893

  • A cooling shower on such a night is hailed as a heavensent blessing in a hundred thousand homes.

    XIV. The Common Herd 1890

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