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Clairvoyance has, as thus appears, a retrospection, and is as able to see the past as the present, or previse the future.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
In actual practice our plans seem not to previse grandfathers and grandmothers, and stop short even of fathers and mothers.
From The Vitalized School by Francis B. Pearson
He had interdicted any communication with the Forest, as Mr. Carnegie prevised.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee
Passages apt for quotation are learned by rote; phrases are polished until they are luminous; periods are premeditated; paragraphs and sections prevised.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
There is no experience more gratifying to one's vanity than to have successfully penetrated and prevised another man's intention.
From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt
With these general principles prevised, we may consider, briefly, the respective rights of the individual and of society.
From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo
They flew to Black Hall, picturing the people, prevising the possibilities there.
From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
There are wondrous impulses in us, constitutional convictions prescient of futurity, like those prevising instincts in birds leading them to take preparatory flights before their actual migration.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
The momentary pain of dying is usually much less intense than the hours of cowardly suffering which men bring upon themselves by prevising the anguish of their last departure, so he told himself.
From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Coningsby Dawson
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