Destinies

Examples

• The destinies of society are felt to be too solidly set in industrial conditions to allow any cultural direction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But, no; in times of misery we must fight against our destinies, and strive not to be overcome by them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It has altered the destinies of---- Three people. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Chemists--I assert it emphatically--might sway, if they pleased, the destinies of humanity. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This destruction of Thebes betrayed a streak of crazy violence in the new master of human destinies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• John Edison was long-lived, like his father, and reached the ripe old age of 102, leaving his son Samuel charged with the care of the family destinies, but with no great burden of wealth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Impossible to trust ourselves with the touching tale of your deeds and destinies. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The magic mirror is here: you shall learn their destinies--and first that of your little life, Jessy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was as if he heard the destinies of the race calling to him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For the first time we have something like a self-governing nation, something larger than a mere city state, seeking to control its own destinies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If you had any sympathy with the destinies of the human race, it would raise you high above any such idea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To the Anglo-Saxon race has been intrusted the destinies of the world, during its pioneer period of struggle and conflict. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They had little or no vision of any scheme of human destinies greater than this game they played against one another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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