As regards the new King himself, his behaviour at this great crisis in his own fortunes and the destiny of two nations deserves, at any rate, the credit of honesty and straightforwardness.
I wonder which will appear most ludicrous then, Bishop Wilfred in juxtaposition with the comet star, or the destiny of the white race put in jeopardy by a pugilistic contest between one white and one black man!
Some inadvertent little angel in thedestiny shop took down her name when the heroine of a romance was called for, and put her where she shouldn't have been, and then ran off to play no doubt, not stopping to look twice.
Later I understood the wise reflection of my father, but no one carves out his own destiny and he must submit to fate.
The same destiny which led us towards the bar guided us also on the paths of literature.
He realized that with them he was dealing with soul-stuff, and that Destiny awaited just around the corner.
And destiny devised that it was to be fifteen years before he was again to see his beloved "United States of America.
Only a bold man, rough and coarse, could have defied the reigning powers and done the work which Destiny had cut out for John Knox to do.
The destiny of all religions is to die and fertilize others.
What does the mysterious triad of these deeds of destiny tell us?
Come out West; take to yourself the whole Mississippi Valley; let us make it dead-sure, and I tell you the Atlantic slope and Pacific shores will follow its destiny as sure as the limbs of a tree live or die with the main trunk!
The pronouncements of destiny are written in iron," I replied inoffensively, "and it is as truly said that one fated to end his life in a cave cannot live for ever on the top of a pagoda.
From that time forward d'Argenson went his way in peace; and the little rake's progress was proceeding apace, when it was overtaken by one of those strokes of destiny which it is equally impossible to foresee and to resist.
The character with which destiny had endowed him was but poorly adapted to the social medium in which it was to move; and to the great world where moral commonplace is law, he was a stranger.
They are an industrious people, and many of them have shown such marked administrative ability as to convince observing men that the race will be potent in shaping the destiny of nations.
The sudden crisis in her destiny had shaken her to the foundations.
Use it often and well, in working out the highest destiny of which you are capable.
As after a day of gloom the sun may perhaps break through the clouds at its setting, so destiny may bestow on nations in their decline yet a last great man.
This was no accidental destruction, such as destiny sometimes prepares even for peoples capable of development, but a self-incurred and in some measure historically necessary catastrophe.
This was the first great trial to which destiny subjected him; and he failed to stand it.
It was certainly her destiny to find full scope for the spirit of self-sacrifice so early implanted, and so persistently called upon.
The main factors of her destiny worked, in practice, from this side the water.
If there was a grotesque side to their vices which mingles laughter with our reprobation, this did not render their influence less pestilent to the community of which the motive of destiny had made them social chiefs.
We might have been two men engaged in a dispute and seeking an agreement on common ground, whereas it was the happiness and the whole destiny of a woman that were at stake.
These accidents destiny turned to account with diabolical malignity.
Agitated discussions arose as to the final destiny of the palace and its contents.
In these halls, these gardens, these secluded villas the supreme destiny of the Bourbon monarchy was achieved.
What epic ever chronicled the destiny of an epoch in a manner more brilliant and complete?
For that indeed the best medium of destiny is a geologist, let us say the senior professor of geology at Plutoria University.
As one of the ways and means, Destiny was sending at this moment as its special emissaries two huge, portly figures, wearing gigantic goloshes, and striding downwards from the halls of Plutoria University to the Grand Palaver Hotel.
But, if the Wizard of Finance had known it, at this very moment when he sat with the Aladdin's palace of his golden fortune reared so strangely about him, Destiny was preparing for him still stranger things.
But ifDestiny held all this for Tomlinson in its outstretched palm before it, it concealed stranger things still beneath the folds of its toga.
The veteran soldier, believing she was his betrothed, that she was torn by cruel destiny from the object of her affections, endeavored to soothe her troubled spirit by the balm of kindness and consolation.
She felt, however, from the inspiration of faith a feeling of spiritual joy that he was called to the higher destiny of a favorite of Heaven.
Guide him, ye angels, in the sublime destiny to which Heaven calls!
And what, mother, if some unseen, invisible destiny should really call me away; if it were for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, would you not rejoice?
Cassier is in the group listening to the aged monk recount his adventures; with knitted eyebrows he hears him moralizing on the awful destiny of the future.
The timid Madeleine, beneath her rich suitor in position, dazzled by wealth, and decoyed by the fair promises that so often deceive the confiding character of girlhood, gave her hand and her heart to a destiny she soon learned to lament.
The young man replied, "O uncle, what fate and destiny have ordained hath come to pass.
After these words the wife said, 'To the first husband to whom destiny united me am I inclined more than ever.
For good or ill, each has a destiny prepared for him, and that destiny he must perforce fulfil.
At one o'clock I was under arms, and prepared to receive him on whom my destiny depended.
I gave comte Jean to comprehend, by signs, that I left my destiny in his hands, and he kissed my hands and withdrew.
Meanwhile the horses of destiny stamped with impatience, and spectators were knocking at the prison gate.
I strove in vain to collect my ideas, and arm myself for what I well saw was approaching, and the exact appearance of the singular predicter of my destiny prepared me for the rapid accomplishing of all that had been promised.
You doubtlessly remember the young man who so obstinately pursued me to announce the high destiny to which I should attain, ere I had for one moment contemplated such an elevation.
He placed amongst the pages the vicomte Adolphe du Barry, son of comte Jean, a young man of great promise, but whose destiny was so brief and so unfortunate.
Wherever destiny might lead, she would still be the same proud and independent woman, responsible only to herself, fulfilling the nobler laws of her existence.
The misery of Bella Royston would not in the least affect any other girl's way of thinking about the destiny of her sex.
It will be indeed an evil day for me,' said Goertz, smiling, 'when my destiny shall be in the hands of Ulrika.
