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The gods' foreknowledge on our swords will wait: If we fight well, they must foreshow good fate.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

Stocks.—These sweet scented flowers foreshow an unexpected happiness with someone whom you have not seen for a long while.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

This naturally seemed to foreshow what was to be.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Prognos′ticāte, to foreshow: to foretell: to indicate as future by signs.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various