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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

The approaching hour appeareth great with woe: Some guile-born misery doth Fate foreshow.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

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

It is unquestionably true that “appointed signs foreshow the weather,” to a great extent, every where, but with more certainty in the climate in which Virgil wrote than in our variable and excessive one.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler

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 Goldwin Smith

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild

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

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

There is a foreshowing of the same law in the Physiocratic view that only in the production of raw material is there a real excess over and above the cost—produit net.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher

But Shelley seemed to us an incarnation of what was sought in the sympathies and desires of instinctive life, a light of dawn, and a foreshowing of the weather of this day.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

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

From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Swami Panchadasi

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

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

In all mere providential interpositions, foreshown by symbolic imagery, the predicted events are represented by corresponding acts of symbolic agents.

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

And contrariwise, there are those who believe none thereof, save after they find themselves fallen into the peril foreshown.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

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

But time and a right life alone Fulfil the promise then foreshown.

From Victories of Love by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

An old man who was there, Halitherses by name, a man skilled in the signs made by birds, told those who were around what was foreshown by the combat of the eagles in the air.

From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Willy Pogany