But despite theprovidential loneliness of the road, there were one or two terrors that could not be disposed of so summarily.

But being arrived in this lonely place, where it was very improbable he should meet with any interruption, he suddenly slipped his garter from his leg, and, laying violent hands on the poor woman, endeavoured to perpetrate that dreadful and detestable fact which we have before commemorated, and which theprovidential appearance of Jones did so fortunately prevent.

I'm old, and I don't understand the rights and wrongs of it, but it's come as aprovidential blessing to him.

The result is massacre; not, however, without its advantages, as it eliminates the more brutal and troublesome of the Isosceles; and by many of our Circles the destructiveness of the Thinner Sex is regarded as one among manyprovidential arrangements for suppressing redundant population, and nipping Revolution in the bud.

"DEAR MADAM--I cannot but regard it asprovidential circumstance that your niece, in writing to you from my house, should have mentioned, among other events of her school life, the arrival of my new teacher, Miss Jethro.

Razumov as aprovidential man, wide as poles apart from the usual type of agent for "European supervision."

It's quiteprovidential, first an' last, fer all concerned.

We could see them as they filed out of the pass, just for an instant, before they were lost to view behind a friendly ridge; to us a mostprovidential ridge; since, had they been in view for any great length of time, they scarcely could have failed to discover us.

Thisprovidential relief gave them strength to pursue their journey, but they were frequently reduced to almost equal straits, and it was only the smallness of their party, requiring a small supply of provisions, that enabled them to get through this desolate region with their lives.

For Wingrave it wasprovidential. The loud chorus which had heralded the upraising of the curtain died away.

Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, who knew that Heaven promotes its purposes without aiming at the stage-effect of what is called miraculous interposition, were inclined to see aprovidential hand in Roger Chillingworth's so opportune arrival.

I am not superstitious, but I consider the Commodore's interview with that whale asprovidential. Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright?