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But when he arrived in his gold-toned Rolls-Royce for a meeting of his corporate shareholders last month in Perth, Holmes a Court, 50, had acquired a new identity: the Great Disposer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Happily, by the goodness of the allwise Disposer of events, the unfortunate can avail themselves of a thousand sources of comfort, which, by those in prosperous circumstances, are either overlooked or neglected.

From A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island by Holden, Horace

Do justice then in all things we would say, not in the pride of opinion but on principle, and let the Allwise Disposer of the fates dispose of the consequences.

From Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 2 of 3) by Loudon, Margracia

The result is in the hands of the Disposer of events.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

Eternal Disposer of events! if virtue be thy special care, why is the fairest flower in the garden of innocence and purity blasted like a noxious weed?

From Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father by Mitchell, I. (Isaac)