foreshow

Example Sentences

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Jelly.—This foreshows a time of pleasure and a time of pain.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

Box.—An open box foreshows a troubled love affair; a closed box, that you will find something which you had lost.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

Steeple.—This denotes misfortune, bad luck; if it is crooked or bending it foreshows a coming disaster or crushing blow to your hope.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

Mont. Go see What it foreshows, and what the gods decree.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Hat.—A symbol of luck, presents, success in new work or enterprise; sometimes it foreshows the arrival of a visitor.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely