The direction was kept by compass, many of the men having been supplied with a miniature instrument by the prudent foresight of Mrs. Lanview, who was niggard of neither time nor money in the cause she had at heart.

"Remember that to Sir Henry's remarkable foresight all our prosperity has been due.

Parental solicitude and prophetic foresight were in his glance, but the expression was relieved by the charity of a chastened spirit.

The earliest Saxon who built his stronghold where the castle now stands must have had an eye for situation, pictorially considered, as well as that keen martial foresight which told him that the warrior who commanded the first hill from the sea, with that bastion of natural fortifications behind him, the Downs, had the God of battle already ranged on his side.

Provident suggests practical foresight and careful economy in preparing for future needs.

Indolent in his habits, the Indian is opposed to labor; improvident in his mode of life, he has little foresight in providing, or care in preserving.

Lawless and ferocious as was the main body of the rioters, there were shrewd heads to guide their fury; and the very first order issued by this committee was marked by such acute foresight, and such a skillful adaptation to the requirements of the moment and the humor of the people, that it remains in force to this day.

The pistol duel, that Count Benkendorff with cunning foresight did nothing to prevent, took place June 27, 1837.

Total exemption was granted, the chairman of the Tribunal congratulating the young man on his patriotic foresight.

The name seems easy in hindsight, but requires considerable foresight and thinking to arrive at.

That is one reason why constructive foresight is one of the great constant needs of every growing nation.

To the artist definite foresight is denied.

Moreover these three plans of action coöperate, if not by deliberate foresight, yet by coincidence of time and purpose, and in some measure by common personages.

The delicate foresight and prudent sagacity of Fenelon had a long while ago sought to prepare his pupil for the part which he was about to play.

The 17th was occupied by a retrograde movement of the allied army, directed by the duke of Wellington, for the purpose of taking its stand on the position he had previously fixed on for the pitched battle, the decisive nature of which his determined foresight had anticipated.

The event here was going ashore in rowboats, and in the rain, only to see a few dirty Indiansa foresight of what was to followand a salmon-packing house not yet in working order.

At all events, thanks to ecclesiastical foresight, which increased the number of fairs and markets at the gates of abbeys and convents, the first step was made towards the general resuscitation of commerce.

Instead she saw with envenomed foresight what would happen.

PUNCHINELLO, recognizing with ethereal foresight the exigencies of the situation, proclaims itself for the "Right Party"our party.

XII, 4:2a-f] There was a certain Joseph, young in years, but of great reputation among the people of Jerusalem for dignity and exact foresight.

" "That was what might be termed extraordinary foresight, Mr. Darrin," remarked Lieutenant-Commander Denham ironically.

I am under accusation, not because I dash headlong into battles nor because I risk dangers in my office as general, purposing by losing many soldiers and killing many enemies to be named dictator and celebrate a triumph, but because I am slow and because I delay and because I always exercise extreme foresight for your preservation.

what feeble foresight!

By the time the men reached the train they discovered that they could never make war laden down as they were by knapsacks filled with the preposterous impedimenta feminine foresight had provided.

Mahomet was of a nervous temperament, the nature that suffers more intensely through its imaginative foresight than in actual experience.