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foretoken

[fawr-toh-kuhn, fohr-, fawr-toh-kuhn, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌtoʊ kən, ˈfoʊr-, fɔrˈtoʊ kən, foʊr- /




















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Holroyd manages to make each successive phase of Shaw's life seem significant of itself, rather than simply as a foretoken of what was to come or as raw material for the plays.

From Time Magazine Archive

The present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ah!" the wise old lips reply, "Youth may pass and strength may die; But of Love I can't foretoken: Ask some older Sage than I!"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various

They say that eclipses foretoken misfortune, because misfortunes are common, so that, as evil happens so often, they often foretell it; whereas if they said that they predict good fortune, they would often be wrong.

From Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Then he knew why he had been so blissfully happy that evening; it was just a foretoken of the little girl's nearness.

From The Emperor of Portugalia by Velma Swanston Howard




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