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Stocks.—These sweet scented flowers foreshow an unexpected happiness with someone whom you have not seen for a long while.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent

At least accomplish what your signs foreshow: I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go.'

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Thy father's battle-brand, of yore For Tine-man forged by fairy lore, What time he leagued, no longer foes His Border spears with Hotspur's bows, Did, self-unscabbarded, foreshow The footstep of a secret foe.

From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott

Au′spicate, to foreshow: to initiate or inaugurate with hopes of good luck:—pr.p. au′spicāting; pa.p. au′spicāted.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Foresignify, fōr-sig′ni-fī, v.t. to betoken beforehand: to foreshow: to typify.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

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

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

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild

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

Sometimes the second-sight consists of a picture clearly foreshowing some coming event; more frequently, perhaps, the glimpse of the future is given in some symbolical appearance.

From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Swami Panchadasi

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 Arthur Hubbell Palmer

"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 John Lord

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 Robert Taylor Conrad

I answer that, The effect of Christ's Passion was foreshown by the very manner of His death.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

To far-sighted philosophers, indeed, this was a state of things long foreshown.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

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

But time and a right life alone Fulfil the promise then foreshown.

From Victories of Love by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

And contrariwise, there are those who believe none thereof, save after they find themselves fallen into the peril foreshown.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne