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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

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

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

Since these and similar gloomy scenes foreshow future commotions, as we learn in the progress of time, all good men ought to avoid them.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke

At least accomplish what your signs foreshow: I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go.'

From The Aeneid English by Virgil