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And I will now foreshow thee what the Gods Teach me, and what, though neither augur skill’d Nor prophet, I yet trust shall come to pass.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prog- nostication.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne

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 Sir Walter Scott

There may have been nothing in her early manifestations of character to foreshow the noble womanhood into which she grew.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Henry W. Bellows

To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

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

The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language. 

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild

As a boy, he displayed signs of a singularly proud and independent temper, and foreshowed his bent by the delight which he took in the society of military men.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

Then the light which appeared from heaven was taken up from their eyes, and foreshowed the ascension of the saint unto heaven.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

There were many prodigies that foreshowed this victory, but the most remarkable that we are told of, was that at Tralles.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

Prognos′tic, a foreshowing: a foretelling: an indication: a presage.—adj. foreknowing: foreshowing: indicating what is to happen by signs or symptoms.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

As2 = Anticipatory suggestion, a foreshowing of something definite to happen, exciting the reader's curiosity to know what it is and how it is to be brought about.

From The Writing of the Short Story by Lewis Worthington Smith

But who, from the foreshowing and the bloom of sixteen years, may augur of the finish and the fruit of the three-score and ten, which are the sum of human toil and sorrow?

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

And at that very time Mithridates, it is said, saw a vision in his dream foreshowing what should come to pass.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

Sometimes the second-sight consists of a picture clearly foreshowing some coming event; more frequently, perhaps, the glimpse of the future is given by some symbolical appearance.

From Clairvoyance by C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater

Now things come about as they were foreshown in the portent of that vision whereof I spoke to thee.

From The World's Desire by Henry Rider Haggard

Amongst whom grant me to be received this day as a pleasing sacrifice, such an one as thou thyself hast prepared, that so thou mayest accomplish what thou, O true and faithful God! hast foreshown.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

Bonosus, your friend, is now climbing the ladder foreshown in Jacob's dream.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart

After a new world had been discovered, many scattered indications were then found to have foreshown it.

From The Life of Columbus by Sir Arthur Helps

In all mere providential interpositions, foreshown by symbolic imagery, the predicted events are represented by corresponding acts of symbolic agents.

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss