Sentence examples for divine fortune from inspiring English sources

Divine Fortune outran Arcadius and the favored Slip Away inside the final fence and won the $75,000 A. P. Smithwick Memorial steeplechase at Saratoga, paying $7.40 to win.

Along the way, the gods must smile on you with perfect health and impeccable timing, the divine fortune of a job opening becoming available exactly when you are ready to take it.

In the courtyard, Taiwanese burn incense and cast red, crescent-shaped pieces of wood to divine their fortunes.

Now the waiting game begins for both sides, as they lay plans, bide their time for the most opportune moment to defect and scan the skies like soothsayers, trying to divine their fortunes in the flight of American jets.

As her federal jurors filed in today, Ms. Hsia (pronounced shaw), a 48-year-old Taiwan-born American citizen who works as an immigration counselor in Los Angeles, consulted a Chinese fortune-telling book to try to divine her fate.

And yet, one day after that remark, the Rangers' offense came (relatively) alive, scoring three goals and benefiting from a few sudden — if not divine — strokes of good fortune.

The people appear so incongruous in their surroundings, and their sense of determination — and also of divine entitlement to good fortune and happy days ahead — makes their hardship look like a cosmic joke.

Bonfires were lit, cattle slaughtered and fortunes divined.

For the Smiths, their good fortune seemed like divine intervention.

But fortune or some divine retributive power threw him down in the close of his life, like a successful runner who stumbles at the goal.

THE singer-songwriter KJ Denhert, who characterizes herself as an "urban folk and jazz artist," can attest to the value of good fortune and even divine encouragement in her music career.