19 examples of foreshadowings in sentences

As far as the prophetic import of the Deluge is concerned, a very small local affair might be mystically large with foreshadowings, as we see with regard to the enacted prophecies of the later prophets.

By slow and cautious hints and foreshadowings, the truth was revealed; but Miss Dodbury bore all with resignation.

May it not even be that death shall unite us to all romance, and that some day we shall fight dragons among blue hills, or come to that whereof all romance is but Foreshadowings mingled with the images Of man's misdeeds in greater days than these, as the old men thought in The Earthly Paradise when they were in good spirits.

On the contrary, the event seems to have stimulated them to further persecution, as if they had some foreshadowings of their waning power, and had determined with a desperate energy to quell for ever, if it might be, this discord in their midst.

Of the monastery of Vallombrosa we have had foreshadowings in Florence.

It is true that in the Prologue the poet places one or two finger-postssmall, conventional foreshadowings of coming trouble.

The Summer of 1861, now well advanced, was rife with war and rumors of war, and foreshadowings of coming events.

It rested there as the first offering to a destiny full of ominous foreshadowings.

It is true that the poetry of barbarous nations is rude, and their attempts at painting uncouth; yet even in these we may recognise the foreshadowings of future excellence, and something of the peculiar character which, in happier days, the genius of the same tribe is to stamp upon worthier productions.

The last month of the first year of the war brings no promise of a speedy end; it is not a month of great battles on land or sea, but rather of omens and foreshadowings, good and evil.

What other could fashion an Alexander, if it is not this same God who caused the unquenchable ardor of Daniel, His prophet, to see from so great a distance and by means of foreshadowings so vivid.

Therefore, man or woman, when thy ideal is shattered,as shattered a thousand times it must be,when the vision fades, the rapture burns out, turn not away in skepticism and bitterness, saying, "There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink," but rather cherish the revelations of those hours as prophecies and foreshadowings of something real and possible, yet to be attained in the manhood, of immortality.

Foreshadowings of his death, and the abuse heaped upon him dead (chapters 7-10).

TO-MORROW "If there were no Christian College in India, the foreshadowings of a great To-morrow would demand its creation.

Here one may repeat that while the 'quaint or majestic foreshadowings' of a Supreme Being, among very low savages, are only sketched lightly by Mr. Tylor; in Mr. Herbert Spencer's system they seem to be almost omitted.

The family has adumbrations and foreshadowings among the lower animals, but in general it may be said that while mammals lower than man are gregarious, in man have become established those peculiar relationships which constitute what we know as the family; and it is easy to see how the existence of helpless infants would bring about just that state of things.

In this he traces the story of the human race from the creation through the Scriptural, classical, and feudal periods down to the present century, and closes with foreshadowings of a peaceful and happy future.

There are some foreshadowings on this subject.

Students often ask how this clairvoyant faculty will first be manifested in themselveshow they may know when they have reached the stage at which its first faint foreshadowings are beginning to be visible.

19 examples of  foreshadowings  in sentences