Destined

Examples

• What if my complaint be about to take a turn, and I am yet destined to enjoy health? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But it was destined to come out before long. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Such taxes, when destined for the maintenance of the state, have some advantages, which may serve in some measure to balance their inconveniency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That man is destined to be a prey to woman, as I am to go on 'Change every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The greater part of it will naturally be destined for the employment of industry, and not for the maintenance of idleness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When younger, said he, I felt as if I were destined for some great enterprise. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I made use of a compound more powerful than gunpowder destined perhaps at some time to change the nature of war and influence the state of soc iety. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But I had not done with it yet; and other memoranda were destined to be set down in characters of tint indelible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There was no oracle at Delphi now to tell him that he was destined to destroy a great empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Next follow those that are constructed for twilight; and, last of all, those destined for total darkness, and whose formation is quite peculiar. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He was the father-in-law of Hasdrubal and the father of a boy Hannibal, destined to be the most dreaded enemy that ever scared the Roman Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the descendants of Ali were not destined to share in this triumph for long. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The tale is that he who has tasted the entrails of a single human victim minced up with the entrails of other victims is destined to become a wolf. Plato. The Republic.
• It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Of these I was the eldest, and the destined successor to all his labours and utility. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But it was destined that I should after all have a last word of greeting from my friend and comrade. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• That destined for performing the same office with regard to the freeman is managed by the freeman himself. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It had been intended that Miss Helstone should act as bridesmaid at the approaching nuptials, but Fortune had destined her another part. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I was not angry on my own account, but I felt as if the praises which this idol received were leaves torn from laurels destined for Adrian. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What life are you destined for, Caroline? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nevertheless, she was soon aware that the experiment of coming to Bellomont was destined not to be successful. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The demand for labourers, the funds destined for maintaining them increase, it seems, still faster than they can find labourers to employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Then, a burst of gratitude came upon me, that she should be destined for me, once the blacksmith's boy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• When destined for the maintenance of the church, they are attended with nothing but inconveniency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As to the life I am destined for, I cannot tell. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They built a wall between them and the world--Without, a thousand harpies raved, remorse and misery, expecting the destined moment for their invasion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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