A heaven-sent rain saved the crops. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : A heaven-sent rain revived the crops. From Dictionary.com.
The pastor, of course, was a heaven-sent son of divinity. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
Anne got her second wind and suspected it was heaven-sent. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
The way this has unfolded has been heaven-sent, we believe. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2003] Reference
You've brought me a new sensation, a heaven-sent inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Not everyone agreed that these arrangements were heaven-sent. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Medicine Worse Than the Illness?] Reference
He glanced at Campion and found in him a heaven-sent audience. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Haunted by the humiliation of their heaven-sent power, caged in. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Why, I was heaven-sent and no mistake, dear old lad that I was!. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
Lisa says, "It's heaven-sent, you can't give ice cream up for Lent". From Wordnik.com. [Ash Wednesday] Reference
On the surface, VAs seem heaven-sent to anyone who buys mutual funds. From Wordnik.com. [Vas: Watch And Wait] Reference
But no heaven-sent wind shall whisper thy soul-breathings to the air. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
To me it's a heaven-sent opportunity -- one I'm sure any entomologist would grab at. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
Which I was not, because it was my unlooked for, heaven-sent chance to get square with. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
But in order to recall my young days, I pretend to be filled with a heaven-sent energy. From Wordnik.com. [Look Back on Happiness] Reference
Thorkill thought this fire a heaven-sent relief, and resolved to go and take some of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Instead, there was gratitude for a woman many thought heaven-sent to the people of Calcutta. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem For A Saint] Reference
To this same long-suffering Jimmy was vouchsafed the heaven-sent opportunity, and he leapt at it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917] Reference
They rested, grew, and darkened there; and no heaven-sent breath came silently to steal them away. From Wordnik.com. [The Evil Guest] Reference
That would be asking a lot from even a heaven-sent methodology, and heaven is not in that business. From Wordnik.com. [Good Can Be As Communicable As Evil] Reference
“Never again”: Goldrick, 195. 339 the one heaven-sent opportunity: Churchill, I, 472 – 73. 339. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
So I thought it was heaven-sent, really, just a perfect, perfect way to start a new day after the election. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2006] Reference
Didn't mind the country, and after she'd been here a fortnight disclosed a heaven-sent gift for making coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Though having many other children, it seemed to her that I was a heaven-sent substitute for this lost daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Oh, by thy knees, I implore thee, impute not that heaven-sent affliction to me, nor slay me; pardon, I entreat!. From Wordnik.com. [The Trojan Women] Reference
And Aeson's son saw that she had fallen into some heaven-sent calamity, and with soothing words thus addressed her. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
An added bonus: he cast Kathleen Turner, she of the sultry voice, to lead a multitalented cast that is heaven-sent. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Third Story, Cornbury, The American Plan] Reference
‘She regards herself as a heaven-sent investigator of crime and thinks that Tannasgan is her especial province.’. From Wordnik.com. [My Bones Will Keep]
The storm, if heaven-sent, afflicts him and his companions, while his tormenters are safe inside Gloucester's house. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Why, oh why, ye earthly ministers, why have ye not followed more closely this heaven-sent messenger that is among us?. From Wordnik.com. [The Warden] Reference
She did her best, but with seemingly no avail, and then she had one of those inspirations, which seem almost heaven-sent. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
There was no one about — and here was a heaven-sent chance to open a chest, with a ready explanation if I were detected. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Dragon]
They were seen as uncontrollable external forces — a sort of heaven-sent madness leading to extremes of idiotic behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient & modern] Reference
He is desirous that they should let him live — not for his own sake, but for theirs; because he is their heaven-sent friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Apology] Reference
Receive such intervals of excitement as heaven-sent aids, to help you more easily over, it may be, a wearying and dreary path. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
After the Briton came the Roman, to whose orderly military mind such a chain of hills seemed a series of heaven-sent earthworks. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Has some heaven-sent disease enwrapt thy frame, or hast thou heard from our father some deadly threat concerning me and my sons?. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Here was a heaven-sent opportunity to get the boy out of the house and interested in something new-like, for example, these castaways. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Here was a heaven-sent opportunity to get the boy out of the house and interested in something newlike, for example, these castaways. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Both Toynbee and Progress offer Brown heaven-sent opportunities to define himself, to engage in argument and to dramatise his positions. From Wordnik.com. [Defend yourself] Reference
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