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The gods' foreknowledge on our swords will wait: If we fight well, they must foreshow good fate.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

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

T. O Laertiades! what I foreshow To mortals, either will take place or no; For 'tis the voice of Phoebus from his shrine That speaks in me and makes my words divine.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John

The approaching hour appeareth great with woe: Some guile-born misery doth Fate foreshow.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

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 Hall, Newton Marshall

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

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

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 Clough, Arthur Hugh

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James

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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Lift thy head and thyself baptize In the hopes that radiant rise, Heaven to earth foreshowing, And in each life-spark glowing!

From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell

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 Conrad, Robert Taylor

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 Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

"The Tale" is a prophetic vision of the destinies of Germany,--an allegorical foreshowing at the close of the eighteenth century of what Germany was yet to become, and has in great part already become.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John

Under this figure was foreshown Christ, the true and only First-born of God the Father and of the Virgin Mary, and a true King and Priest, not in a fleshly and earthly sense.

From Concerning Christian Liberty by Luther, Martin

The death of a king was certainly foreshown, but who was the king was uncertain.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke

CLXXXVIII   The Place of his Sepulture is foreshown by a Light from Heaven.

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

By mystic sign and symbol known, To Daniel, wise and meek, alone, Was Persia's coming wo foreshown.

From Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Last night I dreamt a dream; and still The fear and awe my bosom chill; For in that dream I saw foreshown Our race by Ráma's hand o'erthrown.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)