1 There's a providence that watches over the deserving.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival. 2 So life went on for them as it does for those who are not victims of misfortune and whose activities glide along mechanically and tranquilly beneath the eye of providence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 3 The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo. 4 Well, amiable Corsican, let us suppose it is providence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil. 5 You mistake,' he said, 'providence does exist, only you have never seen him, because the child of God is as invisible as the parent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 48. Ideology. 6 I will go to you, and we will fly; but from this moment until then, let us not tempt providence, let us not see each other.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 7 It is a miracle, it is a providence that we have not been discovered.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 73. The Promise. 8 Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 80. The Accusation. 9 All the lineaments which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths produce ebullitions on the surface.
10 Thanks to him, everywhere present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER 11 He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES 12 It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel springing from the earth in the form of Thenardier.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 13 A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the invisibility.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL 14 Cosette, after having been your providence, he became mine.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 15 His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence.