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Nay, at the Corner of a branch Road, had a Mind to beg Dick to let me goe to London; but a glance at his dogged Countenance sufficed to foreshow my Answer.

From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne

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 Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise.

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

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

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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 Hall, Newton Marshall

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James

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 Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

Prognos′tic, a foreshowing: a foretelling: an indication: a presage.—adj. foreknowing: foreshowing: indicating what is to happen by signs or symptoms.—v.t.

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

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 Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)

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 Smith, Lewis Worthington

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 Conrad, Robert Taylor

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 Panchadasi, Swami

Thus, for instance, it was necessary that, in order to the understanding by man of the scheme of Redemption, that scheme should be foreshown from the beginning by the type of bloody sacrifice.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John

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

From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Altar.—If with a figure near, sorrow and distress are foreshown.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

Ind. See, madam, see the event by me foreshown: I envy not your chance, but grieve my own.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

They even have a strong belief that the spirits show them the future in dreams; and say that cases of affliction are always foreshown in a dream.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans