After the adventurers in the holy war were assembled on the banks of the Bosphorus, opposite to Constantinople, they proceeded on their enterprise; but immediately experienced those difficulties which their zeal had hitherto concealed from them, and for which, even if they had foreseen them, it would have been almost impossible to provide a remedy.

But as these important consequences could not be foreseen by human wisdom, the King of France remarked with terror the rising grandeur of the house of Anjou, or Plantagenet; and, in order to retard its progress, he had ever maintained a strict union with Stephen, and had endeavoured to support the tottering fortunes of that bold usurper.

He told me how sad it was to see the ruin of the beautiful country through which they had passed, and what a mistake it had been from his point of view not to have foreseen the methods of Germans and drummed out all the towns through which the armies had passed.

The consequence of this incautious conduct may be easily foreseen.

He declares that even the self-regarding impulses as such are un-egoistic, and makes moral judgment leave out of view all consequences, either foreseen or present, whereas his predecessor had resolved the goodness of the action into its advantageous effects (not for the agent and the spectator, but for its object and) for society.

The consequences of refusing to make provision for the treaty are not all to be foreseen.

In the May following, the sale took place which Wordsworth had gloomily foreseen so many years before.

A lawsuit had gone against my uncle, and what I had long foreseen was gradually accomplishingthe wreck of an old and honoured house.

I've often foreseen, that religion would fetch me up, in the long run; and now that I am altogether relieved from bitterness of heart on the subject of belonging to none, and no one's belonging to me, my sentiments have undergone a great alteration, and I feel a wish to be at peace with the whole human familyno, not with the whole; I except that rascally old Van Tassel.

I have foreseen this from the hour I first met her, after my return; though a single ray of hope dawned on me, when Post advised the change of scene.

The grief of these untutored beings, like their mirth, is usually loud and vociferous; but Lucy, dear, considerate, energetic Lucyenergetic even in the midst of a sorrow that nearly crushed her to the earthhad foreseen all this, and the blacks were admitted only on the condition of their preserving a command over themselves in the interview.

I had nearer relations than Jack Wallingford, some of whom were then in the house; cousins-german by both father and mother; but they were not of the direct line; and I knew that Miles the First would have made this disposition of the place, could he have foreseen events, and had the law allowed it.

As might have been foreseen, the fifty had her extra canvass spread some time before we could open ours, and I fancied she showed the advantage thus obtained in her rate of sailing.

I will, however, suppose it true, that Virginia and Maryland would not have made the cessions in question, had they foreseen, that Congress would abolish slavery in the District of Columbia:and yet, I affirm, that it would be the duty of Congress to abolish it.

One serious difficulty was not yet foreseen and provided forthat of deciding between two conflicting returns sent in by two hostile sets of electors in the same state, each list being certified by one of two rival governors claiming authority in the same state.

The evil he had foreseen had happened.

The charming match-maker had not indulged her passion for making others happy, willy-nilly, for some timenot, in fact, since she had arranged the match between Marie Willoughby and Jack Hearst, which, as the world knows, resulted first in a marriage, and then, as the good lady had not foreseen, in a South Dakota divorce.

This intelligence distressed me much, although I had foreseen that it must necessarily happen.

It could not, he said, be foreseen what unexpected events might occur, which altered the whole situation, and made a war, with its attendant dangers and horrors, superfluous.

As he had foreseen, the place soon capitulated, but the late reverse had rendered Louis less accessible than ever to the claims of mercy; and although by the terms of the treaty he found himself compelled to spare the lives of the troops, numbers of the inhabitants were put to death, and the town was sacked and burned.

The difference of religion between the contracting parties necessarily induced considerable difficulties, but as these were never, at that period, suffered to interfere with any great question of national policy, Richelieu unhesitatingly undertook to obtain the consent of the Sovereign-Pontiff, who, as the minister had foreseen, finally accorded the required dispensation.

"Which they might have foreseen and [might have] avoided.

Had Ghita been taken less by surprise, or had she in the least foreseen the consequences, no human power could have induced her to submit to be sworn; but, ignorant of all this, she submitted passively, kissing the cross with reverence, and even offering to kneel as she made the solemn protestation.

she anxiously asked"I was sworn on the Word of God, and by the sacred crosshad I foreseen any harm to thee, the power of England would not have made me take so solemn an oath, and then I might have been silent.

Captain Lyon had foreseen the danger menacing the public property in the arsenal, and besought the Government for permission to remove it.