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Example sentences for "providentially"

Lexicographically close words:
provided; providences; provident; providentia; providential; providently; provider; provides; provideth; providing
  1. By his boats he providentially reached Timor with ninety-nine of his officers and people, being the whole of his ship's company which were saved.

  2. Here they landed, were hospitably received, and providentially saved from the horror of perishing by famine.

  3. She only succeeded in getting the boat into the trough of the sea, where, after a lurch that threatened to capsize it, it providentially swung around on its short keel and began to drift stern on.

  4. I endeavoured to kneel up and ascertain if providentially any vessel were approaching.

  5. Several hours had now gone by, and the wind providentially holding fair, the ship was nearing the land.

  6. Providentially the wind had by this time decreased, and the tide having fallen, the seas struck with less fury against the wreck, and enabled the two midshipmen to work far more effectually than they could otherwise have done.

  7. Providentially she righted, and drove several miles to the southward before her rudder could be again slung.

  8. Food became scarcer, but providentially Mr Leigh Smith, in the Diana, arrived, and he satisfied the immediate requirements of the unfortunate Swedes.

  9. There was too, something perhaps most providentially salutary and effective, in the atmosphere of the home, where at this particular moment Mary had been led to take up her abode.

  10. It is not often that such instances are afforded us in the order of God's dealings; instances which, to our blind sight, cannot but appear wisely and providentially appointed.

  11. Twice over in the early part of the century, Amsterdam Island became the country of deserted sailors, providentially saved from misery and death; but since these events no vessel had been lost on its coast.

  12. But this fate was providentially averted, owing to mysterious causes which I never could fathom.

  13. Gray would compare with the raindrops[49] which do not fall on the sea, but on to the land to fertilise it) as having been providentially designed.

  14. Another of his remarkable escapes was at a search made for him in the city, where they came to his chamber and found him not, being providentially in another house that night.

  15. At another time, in the same country, before that he happened to be in a much respected gentlewoman's house, where providentially Dr.

  16. Providentially he had gone out to walk by the house; the party, observing him by his gravity to be a minister, said one to another, That may be the man we are seeking.

  17. Most providentially the men were absent on a war expedition, and we saw only three lads and a great number of women and children, who ran off to the bush in terror.

  18. The Tannese seemed to have given me up for dead; and providentially none of them looked near us for many days.

  19. Their lives and their health had been providentially preserved, and they received a friendly greeting from the natives, to whom they imparted a knowledge of the faith they professed.

  20. My heart gave a leap of exultation, for I knew at once just what to do with the instrument thus providentially placed in my hands.

  21. When I came up, providentially I rose clear of the shattered boom-house.

  22. It heard the voice of God in the tramp of these millions marching out of bondage into freedom, and in that voice it heard the call to itself, providentially prepared for the new era.

  23. For the accomplishment of ends for which no means had been found, its methods were providentially chosen by a process of spiritual selection.

  24. Their harbor is providentially situated for vessels that are forced on the coast in heavy gales, and are able to reach its shelter.

  25. Later in life he followed shore-fishing, and was once blown off to sea, where he was providentially picked up by a coaster bound to some Eastern port.

  26. But an easterly wind providentially arose at the moment, and secured the mass of the habitations from the further spread of the flames.

  27. They had been wandering many days in the woods, in pursuit of Boone and his party, and had thus providentially fallen upon them.

  28. Failing to make himself clear, he raised his own gun with the intention of shooting the savage from the perch, but providentially Otto Relstaub averted the necessity.

  29. Some risk was involved in the proceeding, inasmuch as the fire was likely to attract wild animals to the spot, but providentially none disturbed the young pioneers, who slept quiet and security until the sun was in the sky.

  30. The brief respite thus afforded Jack and Otto enabled them to make a closer survey of the shelter which had presented itself so providentially to them.

  31. Lord Maxwell faithfully fulfilled his promise, by conducting his friend with the utmost safety to land, which they at length providentially reached, both much wearied and exhausted, having had a considerable distance to swim.

  32. I was delivered from my dilemma by the curiosity which is, providentially perhaps, a part of woman's character, and which led mademoiselle to interfere herself.

  33. It was clearly his duty to resist these blasted satraps of capitalists; he was providentially selected for the purpose--a village Hampden to withstand the tyrant.

  34. Now it may seem to have been providentially ordered, in the purpose of meeting this view, that these books are made to bear on them most peculiarly the stamp and the claim of Inspiration.

  35. It seems providentially appointed that texts of the Old Testament should be called out into Christian meaning which are the very texts we might have dismissed into a transitory interest.

  36. Providentially we reached a small stone building, which afforded us some shelter from the driving rain and furious wind, against which it was impossible to stand alone.

  37. As we went on, the shot fell like hail around us, but providentially none of us were hit.

  38. The shore was soon reached; providentially there was no surf, and the men quickly landed.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "providentially" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.