foretoken
Example Sentences
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Away to the east a shimmering silveryness beneath a palace of aerial cloud foretokened moonrise.
From The Story Girl by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
And a star is said to have foretokened the birth of the Roman Julius C�sar.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
A sob broke from her, but in it was something which foretokened peace, the sob which comes to those who have conceived a despairing hope, and suddenly intercept its fulfilment.
From Mary Magdalen by Saltus, Edgar
The pessimistic, sardonic heroes of "Manfred," "Childe Harold," and "The Corsair" were the latest results of the "Il Penseroso" literature, and their melodramatic excesses already foretokened a reaction.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
When Mrs. Blewett smiled it foretokened trouble, and wise people had learned to have sudden business elsewhere before the smile could be translated into words.
From Chronicles of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
