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He well may help these warriors," Sir Hagan straight began, "If ever by good fortune he come to be a man; Yet seems the young king's aspect no long life to foreshow.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Dreams, omens, auguries foreshow Our coming lot of weal and woe: But thou, my Ráma, couldst not see The grievous blow which falls on thee.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart In the mellow golden glow Of earth aflush with the gracious blush Which the ripening fields foreshow; Dear sweetheart, be my sweetheart, As into the noon we go!
From Songs and Other Verse by Eugene Field
To foreshow the sins to be treated on the three upper terraces, where are punished those who yielded to the sins of the body, Dante represents himself as tempted by a Siren.
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery
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
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
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
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
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
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
There is a foreshowing of the same law in the Physiocratic view that only in the production of raw material is there a real excess over and above the cost—produit net.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
“Say Pan saith: ‘Let this, foreshowing the place, be the pledge!’”
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
But Shelley seemed to us an incarnation of what was sought in the sympathies and desires of instinctive life, a light of dawn, and a foreshowing of the weather of this day.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
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
Honeycomb.—Prosperous undertakings, honour and renown, and much which is delightful are foreshown by this symbol.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
Ind. See, madam, see the event by me foreshown: I envy not your chance, but grieve my own.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
Nay, the Revolution itself is foreshown in a remarkable glimpse of conjectural prophecy which occurs in the "Telemachus."
From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson
Thus, for instance, it was necessary that, in order to the understanding by man of the scheme of Redemption, that scheme should be foreshown from the beginning by the type of bloody sacrifice.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
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