The dark spot formed thus in the centre of the flower is compared to the brand of love, pre-ordained on the Past Day of Eternity to be imprinted on the heart of Háfiz.]

But this was only the first of a series of singular and fatal oversights that almost seemed pre-ordained by mocking Fate.

In the days of the five-act dogma, each act was supposed to have its special and pre-ordained function.

" The episodes may grow out of each other plausibly enough, but by no pre-ordained necessity, and with no far-reaching interdependence.

Even though all things are pre-ordained, neither of us can be absolved from doing our duty to God and ourselves.

In his dream Morris felt that he expected to see him get out of the train, and walk along the road; the whole thing seemed pre-ordained.

He himself had been too eager to find his work in lifehis pre-ordained workever to discover the deep truths that light-heartedness only can reveal; even when he heard his call to foreign missionsto Hayti, in particularhe felt no such felicity as a man should feel who has climbed to his place in the scheme of things.

I only regard that what hath befallen us was pre-ordained.

Man is a fool to babble of these things; what he may do is of no avail; all things will happen as they were pre-ordained."

Only, in fact, it couldn't; because, like some other things that seem a matter of choice, it was all pre-ordained; and there was a solid stone foundation waiting over on the west side, where grandfather meant it to be.

By birth and call of nature pre-ordained To hunt the badger and unearth the fox Among the impervious crags, but having been From youth our own adopted, he had passed Into a gentler service.

I am one of those rare beings whom Nature pre-ordained for love and for happiness.