foreshow

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Ah me! my present woe Does but the pangs to come foreshow, Pangs that an end will never know.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Smith, Goldwin

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Thy father's battle-brand, of yore For Tine-man forged by fairy lore, What time he leagued, no longer foes His Border spears with Hotspur's bows, Did, self-unscabbarded, foreshow The footstep of a secret foe.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

It is unquestionably true that “appointed signs foreshow the weather,” to a great extent, every where, but with more certainty in the climate in which Virgil wrote than in our variable and excessive one.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

Tell.Ev'ry day such actions Occur in plenty: needs no sign or wonder To foreshow them.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas