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He well may help these warriors," Sir Hagan straight began, "If ever by good fortune he come to be a man; Yet seems the young king's aspect no long life to foreshow.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Ah me! my present woe Does but the pangs to come foreshow, Pangs that an end will never know.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin

There may have been nothing in her early manifestations of character to foreshow the noble womanhood into which she grew.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.

Thy father's battle-brand, of yore For Tine-man forged by fairy lore, What time he leagued, no longer foes His Border spears with Hotspur's bows, Did, self-unscabbarded, foreshow The footstep of a secret foe.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

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