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We must see him through some lenses—we must prefigure his immortality.
CONFLICT OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN THEORIES OF MAN AND SOCIETYHENRY WARD BEECHERThe friendships of young girls prefigure the closer relations which will one day come in and dissolve their earlier intimacies.
A MORTAL ANTIPATHYOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.He had tried feebly to prefigure this face, but never had his visioning approached the actual in its majestic, still beauty.
BUNKER BEANHARRY LEON WILSONLet the fact of this great gift prefigure to us the august office of Woman.
MODERN SOCIETYJULIA WARD HOWEMay it faintly prefigure the unending blackness of that eternal night you have chosen as your future portion.
ELLEN WALTONALVIN ADDISONWith one you could definitely prefigure a man's degree of refinement; with the other the aesthetic color of his soul.
KENNYLEONA DALRYMPLECompared with the extensive parks of modern cities the Monte Pincio would prefigure itself as a drive for fairies alone.
ITALY, THE MAGIC LANDLILIAN WHITINGHe felt that such a change as that might prefigure other changes still more painful and frightsome.
THE SQUIRE OF SANDAL-SIDEAMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARRBut all this wreck and ruin exerts a saddening influence; it seems to prefigure the Death of the Mountain.
THE HEART OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, THEIR LEGEND AND SCENERYSAMUEL ADAMS DRAKEThe upper tier has scenes from the Old Testament or from apocryphal sources which prefigure the events recorded below.
CAMBRIDGE AND ITS STORYCHARLES WILLIAM STUBBSWORDS RELATED TO PREFIGURE
- Photostats
- Xeroxes
- carbons
- cartoons
- clones
- counterfeits
- delineates
- depicts
- dittos
- draws
- dupes
- engraves
- engrosses
- fakes
- forges
- imitates
- knocks off
- limns
- manifolds
- mimeos
- mirrors
- molds
- paints
- paraphrases
- photocopies
- pictures
- plagiarizes
- portrays
- reduplicates
- reflects
- repeats
- replicates
- represents
- reproduces
- rewrites
- sculptures
- simulates
- sketches
- stats
- traces
- transcribes
- act like
- ape
- burlesque
- do
- do a take-off
- do like
- echo
- embody
- emulate
- epitomize
- fake
- follow
- follow example
- follow suit
- go like
- illustrate
- incarnate
- knock off
- make like
- mimic
- mirror
- mock
- model
- parody
- parrot
- personify
- phony
- pirate
- play a role
- prefigure
- repeat
- sham
- simulate
- steal
- take leaf out of book
- take off
- travesty
- typify
- adumbrate
- announce
- anticipate
- apprehend
- augur
- auspicate
- betoken
- bode
- call
- call it
- call the shot
- crystal-ball
- crystal-ball it
- declare
- disclose
- divine
- divulge
- dope out
- figure
- figure out
- forebode
- forecast
- foreknow
- foreshadow
- forewarn
- make book
- portend
- prefigure
- presage
- proclaim
- prognosticate
- prophesy
- psych
- read
- reveal
- see something coming
- signify
- soothsay
- tell
- acquaint
- adumbrate
- advise
- allude to
- angle
- apprise
- bring up
- broach
- coax
- connote
- cue
- drop
- expose
- fish
- foreshadow
- give an inkling
- impart
- imply
- infer
- inform
- insinuate
- intimate
- jog memory
- leak
- let it be known
- let out of bag
- make
- mention
- point
- prefigure
- press
- prompt
- put flea in ear
- recall
- refer to
- remind
- say in passing
- shadow
- signify
- solicit
- spring
- tip off
- tip one's hand
- touch on
- whisper
- wink
- acquaints
- adumbrates
- advises
- allude to
- angles
- apprises
- brings up
- broaches
- coaxes
- connotes
- cues
- drops
- exposes
- fishes
- foreshadows
- gives an inkling
- imparts
- implies
- infers
- informs
- insinuates
- intimates
- jog memory
- leaks
- lets it be knows
- lets out of bag
- makes
- mentions
- points
- prefigures
- presses
- prompts
- puts flea in ear
- recalls
- refers to
- reminds
- says in passes
- shadows
- signifies
- solicits
- springs
- tip one's hand
- tips off
- touches on
- whispers
- winks
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