Mr. Carvel's advent has been a Godsend to us narrow ignoramuses of this island, gentlemen.
A godsend after reading Washington Irving's not very satisfactory Life of Washington.
Yet they were friends, and the honest Zelter's yearly visits were as a godsend to the old poet, who was often pestered to distraction by visitors who only voiced the conventional, the inconsequential and absurd.
The event was a godsend to our trade, for with Scotland in a bicker with Covenants and dragoonings, and new taxes threatened with each new Parliament, a merchant's credit was apt to be a brittle thing.
This is a true consolation, and I thanked my jealous [Greek] for thegodsend so significantly timed.
And Godsend loaded the rifles and a dozen Spanish muskets that were lying about, to be in readiness for another attack, and the women kept watch while we slept.
She receives the Chautauqua Idea as a godsend to help her keep pace with the five active, restless minds that are beginning to pour their questions in upon her.
It is agreed by all that the scheme is not only a grand success, but a godsend to those who are glad to read, yet need to have their reading directed.
To persons so situated, even more emphatically than to those of the settlements, the arrival of visitors from the "east countrie" was a godsend indeed.
She seemed to consider all my property as an unexpected godsend to herself.
Indeed, it was a perfect godsend for her, the fact of lodging the son of that cashier who had stolen twelve millions, and had thus suddenly become a celebrity.
Lincoln's gentleness seemed to these bitter northerners like a calamity; Johnson's vindictiveness like a Godsend to the country.
The chance of a wife with two hundred thousand pounds is a godsend which comes in a man's life too seldom to be neglected, let that chance be never so remote.
His accident however was so far a godsend to both the women at Peckham that it gave them a subject on which they were called upon to speak, before that other subject was introduced.
Looking at the matter in that light, would not such a trial be a godsend to the people of Hamworth?
But unfortunately the gift of an altar to St Fabricius was such a godsend that sundry priests about the country were determined to cling to the good man who had bestowed his money so well.
I've never been above telling you what a godsend you've been to me this summer;--have I?
It is not often that such a Godsend comes in the way of an under-secretary; and he was intent upon his performance.
But he was elated also by the prospect of his travels, and by the godsend of a six months' leave of absence.
He had been a veritablegodsend to them,--and would remain so, could he be kept away from the drinking-shops.
It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years.
Persecution a Godsend There are a lot of people in church, doubtless, who have denied themselves--self-denial for comfort and convenience.
He wrote a similar warning, with black on white, at the western extremity of Godsend Island.
The boatswain piped; the anchor was heaved, and the Springbok went out on a course that bade fair to carry her within a hundred miles of Godsend Island.
In his excitement he got up without assistance, and was soon busy calculating the longitude of Godsend Isle.
With manlike exactness she gave him to understand that friendship with him grown purely out of liking would be a godsend to her; but of kindness from compassion she would have none.
But Petersburg was dull just now; and his behavior had been a godsend to the salons.
Yes, I really flatter myself that our coming into this neighborhood is quite a godsend to them.
The blotting out of such a godsend of a place as this would be a calamity.
Dicky also helped a little; and at the end of a fortnight there came a godsend in the shape of material for match-boxes.
The maîtresse de classe had permitted her to kiss her crucifix, and the music-mistress was enchanted with her skill upon the piano and her rich contralto voice, such a godsend for the choir.
You certainly are a godsend to give us the loan of your car!
His mad passion had died down like a straw-fed flame, and when there had come, like a bolt from their already grey sky, the outbreak of War, it had been a godsend to them both.
An inquest of the kind that was held on Colonel Crofton is a godsend to any local sheet, and Radmore saw at a glance that this county paper had made the most of it.
At least a million acres of good land were discovered--quite a Godsend for this colony, which is so rich in deserts.
Happily, a sufficient compensation was found in the discovery of another creek, which they called the Eyre, after the adventurous explorer; and this godsend in the wilderness they were able to follow for a long distance.
This would have been quite a godsend for Warburton and his party, but happily the present expedition was never reduced to such dire necessity.
The incident would have been a godsendto the Press a few weeks later.
A fog may be a bore to you and me, Bunny, but it's a perfect godsend to the criminal classes, especially so late in their season.
