Heretofore it had been a thing taken for granted, preordained as the alternate coming of light and of darkness.

On the other hand, the more slender and feminine columns of the Parthenon glide into the echinus with gentleness and sweetness, crown themselves with a diadem of chastity, as if it grew there by Fate, preordained from the base of the shaft, like a flower from the root.

" Here was another of those flashes of light by which my story seemed to be preordained to a prosperous end.