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Habakkuk Foretells destruction of the Chaldeans; utters song of praise for the power and mercy of Jehovah, with confidence in his mercy on his people.

From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.

Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf, Foretells the nature of a tragic volume: So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood Hath left a witness'd usurpation.

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

The great English poet has described this sort of eloquence when a calamity had befallen:— Yea, this man's brow, like to a title page, Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

Ay, for 'tis plain, this prelude of their song Foretells its close in tyranny and wrong.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

There is prophetic power   In longing hearts of men, Foretells our union's hour '   For great deeds once again.

From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell