Providence in example sentence

I told him I thought it was very hard venturing anything; but the best method I could think of was to fire on them at once as they lay, and if any were not killed at the first volley, and offered to submit, we might save them, and so put it wholly upon God’s providence to direct the shot.

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And that comes down right way to the present with the dollar bill in the United States, which has on it an eye of providence.

I survived, I believe, because providence watched over me.

That a figure of providence and salvation would work to match Verne (Clark Gable at his most cockily mannered and self-regarding) and Julie (Joan Crawford, snarling and spitting out every other word in an attempt to be the Queen of Tough Dames) seems ludicrous at best.

Once more reflecting and encouraging a large segment of what had been his people, he saw in Hitler the new man chosen by providence, the savior of a Germany defeated by treachery.

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