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foretoken

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




















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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Howard, Velma Swanston

"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

At length, a glimmer of light appeared, which we imagined to be rather the foretoken of an approaching burst of flames, as in truth it was, than the return of day.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard