Meanings of providential thing in English

This was the astounding thing-theterrible thing-andyet, the providential thing.

It's rather a providential thing to have happened, I think.

We think it a providential thing to have such comfortable quarters to come to.

It was just then, as we were both at the mercy of the sea, that a strange and providential thing happened.

I'm not so surprised at seeing you, old fellow, because I picked up a letter-whatyou may call a providential thing.

Still it was a providential thing for him that she was poor, otherwise he never should have dared to aspire to her.

What a providential thing that this young man should press his right thumb against the wall in taking his hat from the peg!

He said, "there were New Catholics going to establish themselves at Gex, near Geneva, and that it was a providential thing."

"It seems to me the most providential thing that you should have been in that neighbourhood to-night," said the inspector, eyeing the young man keenly.

"A providential thing," said a wag to me, "for, in such heat as this, if the water rose to the surface it would all evaporate."