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Definition of Destinies
1. destiny [n] - See also: destiny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Destinies
Literary usage of Destinies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... flag " having never been conquered," and of its " fixing for ever the destinies
of France !!!" Admiral Linois, the governor of Guadaloupe, ..."
2. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"... resulting from the antithesis occasioned by that infinite falsehood which
rules the destinies of the Middle Ages and constitutes their life and spirit. ..."
3. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape by Frederick Douglass (2001)
"... divided — Sad prospects and grief — Parting — Slaves have no voice in deciding
their own destinies — General dread of falling into Master Andrew's hands ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"And if his opinion of absolute necessity of all things were true, the destinies
of men could not be altered, either by examples or fear of punishment. ..."
5. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"DIVIDED destinies IT was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine, And much
I wondered how he lived, and where the beast might dine, And many, ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... who guided its destinies and gathered around him the men who made the Church
Extension a great factor in the Catholic life of America. ..."
7. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"DIVIDED destinies IT was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine, And much
I wondered how he lived, and where the beast might dine, And many, ..."
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