| 单词 | kismet |
| 例句 | Maybe it was kismet, but they spotted an elderly Iranian man dining with his son and decided to rope them into their kooky divorce plan. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z But I do know you’ll work your entire life to be worthy of all that kismet has given you. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Her seventh album, “Piece by Piece,” nodded to bombastic ’80s pop and the era’s hyper-emotive teen film soundtracks; its highlight, the single “Invincible,” was a kismet collaboration with the pop powerhouse Sia. Pop & Rock Listings for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z For Mr. Bleu, finding that paper felt like kismet. Corbin Bleu, on Broadway and Dancing in Fred Astaire’s Footsteps 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In Hong Kong, my father provided me with the luxury of a very international education, one that approached the world through a Western lens and defined kismet as a quirky serendipitous encounter, as mere coincidence. The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In a moment of kismet, Mr. Birdsall’s article won a James Beard award. Building a Table for All: The Ascent of Queer Food Culture 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s kismet, then, or perhaps just plain good casting, that Seymour is one of theater’s most enduring representations of that sort of manic energy. The Queer, Half-Deaf Actor Redefining the Idea of a Leading Man 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Her seventh album, “Piece by Piece,” nodded to bombastic ’80s pop and the era’s hyper-emotive teenager film soundtracks; its highlight, the single “Invincible,” was a kismet collaboration with the pop powerhouse Sia. Pop & Rock Listings for July 10-16 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z That the "Nevermind" anniversary show helps her in a time of need seems like kismet. Nirvana reissue is heaven for fans 2011-09-16T20:57:04Z Onstage, Christian and Foucheux will read from letters exchanged between Stravinsky and Roerich and present “Rite” as a ballet that resulted from a stroke of artistic kismet. NSO and local actors tell the story behind the creation of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ If there’s one thing a rom-com writer loves more than shenanigans, it’s kismet. We sent the wrong bachelor on this date. Was he Mr. Right after all? 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Just as Divorce Detox held its first sessions in 2009, Ms. Brosh discovered her own marriage was falling apart, something she described as a “really weird kismet experience.” A Program That Aims to Lead to Post-Divorce Peace 2012-12-15T00:39:25Z I have heard, “They/we are like two pieces of a puzzle,” or “It was fate/bashert/kismet/meant to be” thousands of times, or that’s how it feels anyway. From a Wedding Writer’s Notebook, 10 Views on Love 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z After the year they’ve had, it feels like kismet — “Trading a family for an apartment,” Grace jokes, bitterly, over a cup of tea at their dining room table. Dear Prudence, how did Slate’s advice columnist find himself here? 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z By kismet or clairvoyance, the year of #OscarsSoWhite was also the year that one of Hollywood’s most incisive observers of race was in the driver’s seat, having wisely ignored calls to step down in protest. Chris Rock’s Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z It was at that costume shop that kismet changed her course. On the Runway Blog: The Second Life of Gemma Kahng 2012-07-12T16:51:02Z Thorn lays bare the process of being a successful creative as a push-me-pull-you of kismet, endless compromise, false starts, luck and Todd Terry remixes. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-02-10T08:00:01Z To my husband and me, this seemed like kismet. My kids’ camp closed because of covid. So we went to Colorado and created our own. 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo So I say to myself, ‘This is kismet,’ and switch my house search from the Hamptons to the Catskills right then. House Tour: Stone Ridge, N.Y. 2010-07-15T21:39:00Z “That was how the project started, with all the synchronicity of that moment. It was extraordinary, having the entire paradigm shift on that first day of shooting, just a crazy instance of kismet.” I'll Be Gone in the Dark: the story of the search for the Golden State Killer 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The random connection seemed like kismet to Ms. Moore. Grateful for a Wedding in Prison 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Though much of her career was carved out through steely determination, Ms. Stafford’s encounter with Einstein was kismet. From Einstein to Couture, This 96-Year-Old Captured It All 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Evans agrees: “I don’t want to sound corny, but the word kismet comes to mind.” Taye Diggs writes a children’s book about racial injustice 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z But it was a moment of kismet in 2018 when her phone rang: it was Campion asking what she was doing for the next two years. Ari Wegner: A Cinematographer Who Knows Actors Down to the Eyelash 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z But all her talk of magic, kismet and other unseen forces is itself a kind of hocus-pocus. Review | Rickie Lee Jones offers a raw and roving account of her life in ‘Last Chance Texaco’ 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “It was a little bit of kismet,” said Showalter, whose acting and writing credits include MTV’s sketch show “The State” and the cult film “Wet Hot American Summer.” As Sally Field aged, her parts got less interesting — until ‘Hello, My Name Is Doris’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Their recipes begin with travel, the kismet of friendship, and may also include a sunrise. | Sotkamo in Midsummer 2012-07-24T13:00:53Z From what I could tell, the internet was where kismet went to die. Goodbye, My Fantasy Man 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z But in India, the concept of kismet is an overpowering social force. The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The whole affair was straight out of a kismet textbook. Goodbye, My Fantasy Man 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z She compares the kismet of her career to being a toy in an arcade claw machine. The Diane Lane Thing is deep and it’s real. Especially with women. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The editors who work at Jewish Currents share Ms. Angel’s sense of kismet. She’s Building a Little Jewish Magazine On Big Ideas 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z I don’t believe in fate or destiny, but I did feel a strange sense of kismet, which was probably more of just the right place at the right time. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z Sometimes it takes more kismet than planning, though. How ‘The Post’ and ‘All the Money in the World’ got rushed to theaters so quickly 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Tyson paid attention to these moments of kismet, understanding that, even when she felt insecure or unprepared, they were happening for a reason. Perspective | Cicely Tyson embodied what it takes to be a great actor: Instinct and intention 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z “I had just gotten engaged a month earlier and wasn’t even looking for a dress, but like all things kismet, it came to me when I wasn’t searching for it,” Ms. Xhakli said. Real Wedding Day Looks 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z That's about as close to kismet as a man like him gets, so he decides to adapt it for AFC Richmond's Greyhounds. Time to move on from the "Ted Lasso" way after a bloated season 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Surely the name of its author, Brian Selznick, caught his eye: Mr. Selznick is related to David O. Selznick, the producer of “Gone With the Wind” — kismet for a cinematic inventor like Mr. Scorsese. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z Mr. Jordan, 26, who grew up in Corpus Christi, Tex., came to star in both musicals through a bit of theatrical kismet. The New Season: Jeremy Jordan in ?Newsies? and ?Bonnie & Clyde? 2011-09-17T23:30:49Z A turbaned passenger calls it “kismet,” but the Depression-era romantic farce “Easy Living” isn’t so much about fate as the fantasy of getting something for nothing. Gifts Galore: ‘Easy Living,’ With Jean Arthur and a Coat From the Heavens 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z In the West, the term “kismet” usually refers to a quirky serendipitous encounter, a blip in a universe powered by free will and randomness. The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z This geometric constellation of diamonds and squares and triangles details everything from your constitution to what color you should wear for good luck to whatever that winking, smirking kismet has planned for you. The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z For some, the discovery of the recording was kismet, a way to connect the music and power of two rising stars who died way before their time. Lil Peep Died Before Becoming Pop Royalty. His New Music May Change That. 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z But, to this day, he credits kismet with much of his success. The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Moments manifest as auguries, as kismet, as a sense that God has glanced at us or, conversely, that we have been silently brushed by demons. ‘The Premonitions Bureau’ Recounts Crowdsourcing the Supernatural 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Those people may be even giddier that the left-leaning "The Rachel Maddow Show" provided the setting for this extraordinary moment of cable news kismet. CNN adds diversity, but still needs strategy to reclaim its status as the go-to breaking news source 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z But Palace Pompadour, he says, is his crowning achievement, a curatorship born of kismet. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z Then, in 1942, in a moment of theatre-history kismet, a producer at the Theatre Guild saw a summer-stock production of “Green Grow the Lilacs” and thought that it might work as a musical. An “Oklahoma!” for Today 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z CMJ: Go Where the Night Takes You A night at the CMJ Music Marathon often begins with purpose only to devolve into a blend of kismet and inertia. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Go Where the Night Takes You 2012-10-18T10:31:45Z It was kismet when they discovered they both wore the same athletic jersey, number 3. On Love: Amanda Ballute and Ben Ostrander For Ligon, encountering Lite Brite, where artisans working for clients like Bergdorf Goodman use blow torches to bend glass tubing, which they then fill with gas and connect to an electrical charge, was kismet. Are Fabricators the Most Important People in the Art World? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Soon, in a moment of entrepreneurial kismet, he met Dr. Cheryl Mitchell. The Milk Situation 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z As workers constructed an alarm-rigged display case for the Mosrite guitar last week, the April opening felt like kismet of a kind. EMP | SFM Nirvana exhibit recalls once-in-a-lifetime moment 2011-04-08T23:55:22Z When I put it on and it fit, I thought that was some sort of kismet.” Scene City: At the Costume Institute Gala, Gawking Is Encouraged 2011-05-03T22:11:18Z In her movies, she had a belief in kismet and destiny. ‘What Happens Later’ co-stars Meg Ryan and David Duchovny talk about rom-coms, fame and Nora 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Sides said the band’s “new bloom” happening alongside Bumbershoot’s rebirth is kismet. Bumbershoot is back: Walk through the 2023 lineup with Thunderpussy 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z His mother — seemingly in an act of uncanny kismet — chose the name “Jeffrey” because of her love for “All My Children” character Jeff Martin. Jeffrey Carlson, known for groundbreaking 'All My Children' role, dies at 48 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z They rely on kismet and serendipity to guide them and share a lack of commercial ambition that keeps all in harmony. 'The Muppets Mayhem' review: The puppets are back in town 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z “I didn’t realize how much I needed Chief until I joined. It was kind of kismet.” Is Empowering Corporate Women Enough? 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z The arrival of the Rubell Museum at this moment in time, it just couldn’t be more kismet, or meant to be, because it elevates the community here in a really unique way. Rubell Museum director says visitors should ‘expect to feel electrified’ 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Newcomers to Maui often experience a phenomenon known as Maui magic, and meeting Carrie that day was certainly kismet. L.A. Affairs: I left Venice for a new life in Hawaii. Would I meet my Aquaman? 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z When you consider that, it feels like kismet that Apple is also embarking on something new in the wearables space now. The Apple Watch Ultra is finally here 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z To be fair, nothing was ever going to live up to Troy and Gabriella’s karaoke kismet from the first movie. In honor of 'High School Musical 2' turning 15, here's every song ranked 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z In a funny bit of kismet, Caldwell-Pope was the first player to congratulate James as the former teammates shared a personalized handshake. On a night LeBron James passes another milestone, the Wizards spoil his celebration 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z “It was really kismet — I just literally had everything you needed in your basement to test masks,” Collins said. The ‘Mask Nerd’ wants you to be safe 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Branagh thought it was kismet: As the director told Hinds, “‘He knows about discipline.’ Ciarán Hinds taps his own memories to play 'Belfast's' Pop 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z It was, perhaps, kismet: Magnuson was chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, which was writing the public accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Lawyer Stan Barer, a political influencer on civil rights and trade with China, dies at 82 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z But it also expertly reconstructs the political, racial, and economic tensions that had been broiling in Los Angeles for decades and finally flamed up on April 29, 1992, in what Anderson described as “tragic kismet.” Column: Almost 30 years later, a podcast remembers when L.A. seethed — and burned 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z His return to his Seattle base further has created a bit of kismet for the Garfield basketball program this season. Koren Johnson decided he needed to return home to Seattle and that includes Garfield and UW Huskies 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z It felt very kismet at times, even though it was a lot of work. Two strangers come together to make the personal feel universal with 'Minari' 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z The kismet was unmistakable Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Georgetown completes shocking Big East run and punches its NCAA tournament ticket 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Her casting, as Lee describes it, was “kismet” — both because of her uncanny resemblance to the character and because she just happened to live in Boston at the time auditions were held in the city. Thanks to its Deaf actors, 'Sound of Metal' offers an authentic look at Deaf culture 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z You can call it fate, kismet, or, as they say, God’s right hand. Bernie Taupin on his 53-year musical marriage to Elton John: It's 'God's right hand' 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Since it was first announced, Hanks’ casting as the beloved children’s television host in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” has had the feeling of kismet. Tom Hanks didn’t want to be Mr. Rogers. Then he met Marielle 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z But Manning’s story is also laced with a healthy dose of kismet. Eli Manning Takes a Seat After Years as the Giants’ Great Catch 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Call it kismet, but Mattox happened to be at the theater that afternoon. Drive-In is country’s last showing 35 mm films every weekend 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z Yes, clearly the forces of luck and karma and kismet and providence were on his side, and yet … well, Chris Chaney put it best: The Sunday-at-the-U.S.-Open Diary: Gary Woodland and the Magical Scrambles at Pebble Beach - Golf Digest 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z In explaining how he wound up in Ojai, Morris insisted that he has always put his faith in that typically Ojai attribute of kismet. How Thomas Morris brought the Ojai Music Festival to the big time 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The women drank coffee and talked about the kismet way “BreatheWatchListenTouch” came together. Yoko Ono, from demon to saint: Why 75 women are paying tribute to her legacy at Disney Hall 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z “It was kismet,” Ms. Goebel, now head of Selective Admissions Consulting, said, still shocked by it years later. ‘They’re Not Fact-Checking’: How Lies on College Applications Can Slip Through the Net 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z “It was kismet,” Goebel, now head of Selective Admissions Consulting, said, still shocked by it years later. ‘They’re not fact-checking’: How lies on college applications slip through 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Amid the travails Mr. Reilly is facing this year, he continued to train for the marathon, leading him to a moment of kismet early last month. A Little Help, a Connection Rekindled and a Forward Trajectory 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z I chose to walk rather than bike the CicLAvia route, better for absorbing the atmosphere, catching sounds and being available for any kismet on offer. Review: The L.A. Phil and CicLAvia brought the city together for a game-changing street party - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z He prefers dialogue to silence, planning over kismet, compromise — and this hasn’t exactly brought Jenkins and Kaepernick closer — over endless conflict. Malcolm Jenkins, the new face of NFL player protests, says ‘We’re really just at the beginning’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z For Kaufman, the timing feels like kismet, with the group’s anti-war and higher consciousness themes as relevant today as they were when the Ace of Cups were playing for tripping hippies in the park. Ace of Cups: the 1960s all-female band finally record their first album 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The money, the technology, the expertise and the will are all here, largely through kismet, Gregoire believes. The Hutch closes in on a cancer cure 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The Laurel and Hardy team was kismet for both comics, with more than 100 movies featuring their slapstick comedy from the late 1920s through the mid-1940s. Author John Connolly reimagines comedian Stan Laurel in ‘he’ 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z A bit of kismet got the Lakers exactly what they were looking for in this year’s free agency. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope reaches deal with Lakers 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Having recently learned some card tricks of his own, the part - a gun-slinging card sharp - felt like kismet. Flush with opportunities, Chris Pratt plays a new hand 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Having recently learned some card tricks of his own, the part — a gun-slinging card sharp — felt like kismet. Flush with opportunities, Chris Pratt plays a new hand 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “That is the most exciting blues artist I’ve seen in years,” he raves, marveling at the kismet of Weathersby’s arrival on the scene. New Antone’s bring blues back to downtown Austin 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Marketing kismet moments is another of the ways that Kauai is being promoted. Education key to Hawaii’s promotion 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Lawrence Bender and Kevin Brown approached me to ask if I'd be interested in writing a show about ballet, which was just remarkable and kismet. Talking to Moira Walley-Beckett about the 'punishing, challenging' world of Flesh and Bone 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Ultimately, the apartment sold for several hundred thousand over our asking price of $949,000, and in a bit of kismet, for the exact same price as our new home in Hastings. Escape From Brooklyn 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z For the final question, he was asked about the connection between his Olympic success for the United States and the new city he will soon inhabit and whether that was kismet. Capitals stay busy, acquire T.J. Oshie from St. Louis in three-player deal 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z I didn’t attend B-U, but I believe my presence here today is kismet. Meredith Vieira to Grads: Be the Left Shark 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z As kismet would have it, the new season blossoms Sunday night with a game featuring the Chicago Cubs, on a major holiday that's heavy with themes of bloodshed and resurrection. Cubs, take heart: Clippers make something of previous nothings And in one of those rare moments of utter kismet, it has appeared just when we need it most. What you think about dangerous inner-city neighborhoods is wrong 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The chance to be in a new “The Real Thing” was “kismet.” Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal reunite for B’way 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Way, an undrafted free agent out of Oklahoma, views all this as a bit of kismet. Washington Redskins punter Tress Way readies for Sunday 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Alright, here’s the kismet part: When my mother was a little girl she had a Boston terrier named beans. Meredith Vieira to Grads: Be the Left Shark 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Whether it’s kismet or the producers were just really on point during the sessions, Nas even sounds good on the beats on a purely musical level. REVIEW: Nas’ Illmatic Stands the Test of Time for 20th-Anniversary Reissue 2014-04-25T13:00:44Z In a case of economic kismet, the data was released Thursday right as a fresh snowstorm socked the East Coast, shutting down the federal government and wreaking havoc from Georgia to Maine. Analysis - Snow blind: winter's wrath obscures views on U.S. economy 2014-02-13T21:48:11Z Every festival is a combination of soaring artistic ambition, gritty logistical details and scheduling kismet. Lincoln Center Festival Adopts a ‘New to You’ Formula 2013-07-03T21:04:16Z And it was that moment of kismet that produced her first employee. The Female Factor: Bridging Cultures and Finding Self 2012-06-05T13:00:36Z That LaPlaca has Double Domino in his barn is not kismet. The Rail: Finding Success in a Second Career 2012-05-01T11:38:42Z This so-called submission to the will of God, or “kismet” or “naseeb,” as the Turk and Arab call it, is often responsible for a great deal of neglect by mothers of their little girls. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z What changed in 24 hours is some sort of cosmic mystery, a delicate blend of confidence, preparation and kismet. Just Before His Breakout, Jeremy Lin Struggled Mightily 2012-03-04T01:59:41Z But, either he found nothing conspicuously wrong, or else he decided that it was a case of "kismet." Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z And if they, too, should be involved in the mighty smash, would not that fact prove quite conclusively that it was their kismet to be involved in the smash, and therefore inevitable? Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z "Such a chain of circumstances almost makes one believe in kismet," I sighed. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z “There was a little bit of kismet,” he added “that the call for a re-evaluation of the waterfront happened at this moment.” City Plans Consolidation of Waterfront Projects 2011-03-13T23:40:37Z Figuratively, he gave himself into the hands of his kismet. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z I don’t believe in destiny as fate or kismet, like that. AungSan Suu Kyi on Her Detention by Burma's Junta 2010-12-21T14:00:00Z He has deeply regretted not going to the front, but with a useful belief in 'kismet' makes the best of things. To Lhassa at Last "It was kismet, I suppose," was all I could say, too happy to think of criticism, and instantly her manner changed and she wiped her eyes. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z Maybe he was just an instrument of kismet to bring us together. You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did Indeed, he reflected, his kismet looked upon him with favor. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z The bays were bowling down the street again by this time; when another kismet, in small and ugly canine form, flew at their heads with yelp and snarl. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 And in return from the Moslem Count Bernstorff may have caught some of his comforting regard for kismet. My Three Years in America It is your kismet; it is Fate; and what am I, to resist Destiny? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 I am not sure that I should enjoy my time in Australia so much if I had not a certain belief in kismet; for travelling out here is certainly very full of risk. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Once more she was a Moslem slave, sold by the man whom last night she had thought——She bowed to kismet and strangled her feelings as she had so many times before. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton So far the ebb-tide has left but two successful crops to those of us whose kismet has led us hither—crime and science. Edge of the Jungle Every thing is kismet, destiny; and a man, whatever his inclinations, must bow to fate. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia The Eskimos gathered together to see what could be done and then decided that it was kismet—and went their way. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell “It was his kismet—his fate, your sublime highness,” rejoined Mustapha, “that he should go through those perils to amuse your leisure hours.” The Pacha of Many Tales If you cannot, then we must just say kismet, I suppose. Tales of Destiny But he could not know, nor could they, that he was their kismet and that his small brown hands wound and unwound, tangled and straightened, the threads of their lives. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories They say when I complain of all I bore —It is thy kismet, what would'st thou have more? Hindustani Lyrics "Our kismet is indeed bad, but let the will of God be done!" was the pious rejoinder of the most villainous-looking of the surrounding cut-throats. The Story of the Guides “Yet there are wise men who can read our kismet, and foretell.” The Pacha of Many Tales It is only the ignorant or the base that makes kismet the excuse for helplessness or for wrongdoing. Tales of Destiny With what lights that shone, his conduct was prudent enough; and his dethronement is to be charged to destiny—to kismet, rather than to any gate-opening carelessness on the purblind part of himself. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Very Oriental is the word kismet, or destiny, as most of my readers are probably aware. The English Gipsies and Their Language But, what cares the woman?—is she not a Mohammedan, and a female one at that?—and does she not believe in kismet. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama "It was his kismet—his fate, your sublime highness," rejoined Mustapha, "that he should go through those perils to amuse your leisure hours." The Pacha of Many Tales And you said, 'Behold it is my star, which is the lord of the dog-heat in summer, and it is my kismet.' Mr. Isaacs Well, well, it is kismet, and it must be faced. Tales of Terror and Mystery Well, well, it is kismet, and must be faced. Round the Red Lamp He dwells piously and at considerable length upon our obligations to submit to the will of Allah, not forgetting a liberal use of the Oriental fatalist's favorite expression: "kismet." Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Perhaps it was the wind and sand of the Arabian deserts which gave the minds of the original followers of Mahomet their tendency to bow to kismet. The Captain of the Polestar It's rotten luck for you, Sheik, but it's kismet. The Shadow of the East But she declined them all with the words "Marriage is not my kismet," which is but the Indian equivalent of "My faith hath departed and my heart is broken." By-Ways of Bombay It was their fate, a deep-sea kismet as unavoidable as death. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore Much threatening, bantering, and persuasion is necessary to induce them to follow the leadership of the khan; but, trusting to kismet, they finally venture, and both come through without noteworthy misadventure. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Who am I to foretell a man's kismet? King of the Khyber Rifles They seemed to regard themselves as in worse plight than prisoners and awaited with resignation whatever might be their kismet. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Seems to be what you call yashmak or I mean kismet. Ulysses No! the family's going down fast; and it's pity when these old Saxon houses vanish off the land; but it is "kismet" with the Hamleys. Wives and Daughters Having duly strengthened and fortified themselves with these devotional exercises, they bravely prepare to resign themselves to kismet and follow my instructions about crossing the stream. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Be thy kismet as thy courage, then—but I am hers, not thy man! King of the Khyber Rifles It's kismet, Miss Falconer; it's the hand of Providence, no less. The Firefly of France Each one tried to make out he didn't care, but each one was thinking upon the same subject—his luck, fate, kismet. At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. |
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