foreseen

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Foreseen as it was, the news stung a little when it came.

From Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie

Do not the hist'ries of all ages Relate miraculous presages Of strange turns in the world's affairs, Foreseen by astrologers, soothsayers, Chaldeans, learned genethliacs, And some that have writ almanacks?

From Guy Mannering — Complete by Scott, Walter, Sir

—Thou hast foreknown the vanity of hope, Foreseen thy harvest—yet proceed'st to live.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

These Fate reserv'd to grace thy reign divine, Foreseen by me, but, ah! withheld from mine.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

"Foreseen and foretold!" returned the other, in a manner to show that her faith in the professional prescience of the stranger was not altogether so unbounded as that of her more youthful and ardent companion.

From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore