forespeak
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She stood at the pier-head and as they passed poured a cup of ale into the sea, to forespeak good luck for the fleet.
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
She could forespeak them so that they should give poison instead of milk, and the cream she had once overlooked was never fit for the “yirning.”
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
"Do not forespeak us, brother," said Angus; "that is not lucky."
From A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott
Those, meanwhile, who knew anything that boded ill, concealed it, lest they might seem to forespeak ill-luck.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
Susanna Edwards was active and powerful in forespeaking.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
Cattle, like human beings, were exposed to the influences of the evil eye, of forespeaking, and of the casting of evil.
From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Sir James George Frazer
Thou hast forespoke my being in these warres, And say'st it is not fit Eno.
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
We'll therefore, if you please, support our praises with some testimonies of Holy Writ also, in the first place, nevertheless, having forespoke our theologians that they'll give us leave to do it without offense.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
But this night the mournful glamour of the past caught a fresh glory from the dawn of a grander day forespoken.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Theo. Hampe
The woman told the man he had an ill neighbour, and that the child was forespoken.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
The Royal quarry, so long in the toils of Fate, was dragged down at last, and the doom forespoken by the prophet was fulfilled.
From John Knox and the Reformation by Andrew Lang
Kinred, nacion, contrey, kynde, age, bryngynge vp, or discipline, hauioure of the body, fortune, condicion, nature of the mynde, studies, affectacion, wordes forespoken, & deedes done before, commocion, counsell, name.
From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Herbert William Hildebrandt
But hearing himself forespoken so pleasantly, he came to a stand and peered at them through his gold-rimmed glasses.
From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
