"Destine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... befated[obs3], be doomed, be destined &c. in for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate &c. n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help. destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell &c. 992; necessitate; compel &c. 744. Adj. necessary, needful &c (requisite) 630. fated; destined &c. v.; elect; spellbound compulsory &c. (compel) 744; uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... accursed of God. The husbandman as he sows his grain must know that he is working at the work of life, and not rejoice because Death is walking beside him. In a word, death must no longer be the punishment of prosperity or the consolation of adversity. God did not destine death as a punishment or a compensation for life; for he blessed life, and the grave should not be a refuge to which it is permitted to send those ...
— The Devil's Pool • George Sand
... elevation of character about Oliver that proceeds from education, which would forbid so clan- destine a proceeding. ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
... felt, to find myself an object of suspicion, or likely, in the slightest degree, to become the cause of any temporary misunderstanding between His Royal Highness amid those distinguished characters, whom His Royal Highness appears to destine to those responsible situations, which must in all public matters entitle them to ...
— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore
... own brave Mathematica, my pupil and my pride, "My persevering Student whom I destine for my bride; "Love struggled hard with Duty, while the lover marked you B; "In the end the stern Examiner prevailed and gave you D. "Mine was the hand that dealt the blow! Alas, against my will "I plucked you in Arithmetic—and can'st thou love me still?" She gazed upon him and her eye ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
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