The day of atonement prefigured the atonement of Christ, and the year of jubilee, the gospel jubilee.

Notwithstanding the homeliness of the action, there is here a religious and mysterious significance, prefiguring the Baptism.

His wide interest in human beings and his knowledge of the new Italian literature prefigure the coming to England of the Revival of Learning in the next age.

It is hard to discern the oak in the acorn, or a temple like St. Paul's in the first stone which is laid; nor can I quite prefigure what destination the genius of William Minor hath to take.

And here, if for the moment I may prefigure the Eagle as a sentient being, I can imagine his chuckle.

Here we see dimly prefigured a modern editor prematurely soliciting the support of Great Names.

The great Tyrone dying in exile at Rome, Red Hugh O'Donnell perishing in Spain in the early days of the seventeenth century, were to prefigure the fighting and dying of half a million Irish warriors on continental soil for a hundred years after the fall of Limerick as the seventeenth century neared its close.

It is hard to discern the oak in the acorn, or a temple like St. Paul's in the first stone which is laid; nor can I quite prefigure what destination the genius of William Minor hath to take.

His boyhood, as usual, prefigured the mature man: it was diligent in study, hilarious at play; his mind bent upon solid things, not the showy.

In its use of a love story, Euphues prefigures the modern novel.

If his action prefigure passion, he raves, rages, and protests much by his painted heavens, and seems in the height of this fit ready to pull Jove out of the garret where perchance he lies leaning on his elbows, or is employed to make squibs and crackers to grace the play.

The positive doctrines of Thomasius have less interest than this general standpoint, which prefigured the succeeding period.

His quartette describes a day in one of those Attic souls who prefigure on earth the serenity of Elysium.

In that memorable struggle, the issue of which to some extent prefigured the shape that the government of the United States was to take five hundred years afterward, the cities and boroughs supported Simon de Montfort, the leader of the popular party and one of the foremost among the heroes and martyrs of English liberty.

Foole, indirectly thou describ'st another, Thats Prince Navar: Pembrooke his plume is Azure A little intermixt with spotlesse white, Prefiguring the temper of the Sky With whose hye motion his great mind doth move.

The latest newspapers Redwood had did but vaguely prefigure these imminent things.