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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 John Dryden

What if some demon should my death foreshow, Or bid me change, and to the Christians go; Will you not think I merit some reward, When I my love above my life regard?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Sir Walter Scott

For all things were done by Thy servants; either to show forth something needful for the present, or to foreshow things to come.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey

Au′spicate, to foreshow: to initiate or inaugurate with hopes of good luck:—pr.p. au′spicāting; pa.p. au′spicāted.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Sweetheart, be my sweetheart   In the mellow golden glow Of earth aflush with the gracious blush   Which the ripening fields foreshow; Dear sweetheart, be my sweetheart,   As into the noon we go!

From Songs and Other Verse by Eugene Field

The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language. 

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild

There were many prodigies that foreshowed this victory, but the most remarkable that we are told of, was that at Tralles.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

Then the light which appeared from heaven was taken up from their eyes, and foreshowed the ascension of the saint unto heaven.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

As a boy, he displayed signs of a singularly proud and independent temper, and foreshowed his bent by the delight which he took in the society of military men.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

“Say Pan saith: ‘Let this, foreshowing the place, be the pledge!’”

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

I have translated "Anwá" by Pleiads; but it means the setting of one star and simultaneous rising of another foreshowing rain.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sometimes the second-sight consists of a picture clearly foreshowing some coming event; more frequently, perhaps, the glimpse of the future is given by some symbolical appearance.

From Clairvoyance by C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater

But who, from the foreshowing and the bloom of sixteen years, may augur of the finish and the fruit of the three-score and ten, which are the sum of human toil and sorrow?

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

As2 = Anticipatory suggestion, a foreshowing of something definite to happen, exciting the reader's curiosity to know what it is and how it is to be brought about.

From The Writing of the Short Story by Lewis Worthington Smith

Nay, the Revolution itself is foreshown in a remarkable glimpse of conjectural prophecy which occurs in the “Telemachus.”

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

To far-sighted philosophers, indeed, this was a state of things long foreshown.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

Bonosus, your friend, is now climbing the ladder foreshown in Jacob's dream.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Rat.—Treachery and other impending troubles, are foreshown by this unpleasant symbol.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent

CLXXXVIII   The Place of his Sepulture is foreshown by a Light from Heaven.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary