predestined

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Predestined bride, in heaven's eternal dome, Of some brave youth—ha! durst they say "of some?"

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

In these prime settlements thy raptures trace The germ, the genius of a sapient race, Predestined here to methodise and mould New codes of empire to reform the old.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Predestined is the term of thy long life; Short span is mine, And menaced by a thousand ills.

From The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Williams, L.

Lamented chief!—it was not given To thee to change the doom of Heaven, And crush that dragon in its birth, Predestined scourge of guilty earth.

From Marmion by Morley, Henry

Predestined to phthisis by heredity, she was saved, thanks to Dr. Pascal Rougon, who sent her to live with an aunt in the country, where she was brought up in the open air.

From A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by Patterson, J. G