787 examples of foretells in sentences

In the Fian poems she converses with those who see her, and foretells the fate of warriors going to battle.

Then there is the clover, to dream of which foretells not only a happy marriage, but one productive of wealth and prosperity.

Similarly, too, the vine foretells prosperity, "for which," says a dream interpreter, "we have the example of Astyages, king of the Medes, who dreamed that his daughter brought forth a vine, which was a prognostic of the grandeur, riches, and felicity of the great Cyrus, who was born of her after this dream.

To the married it foretells the birth of a male child.

Rain on Easter Day foretells a good harvest but poor hay crop, while thunder on All Fool's Day "brings good crops of corn and hay."

He throws down a gauntlet of defiance to all corrupt potentates; he predicts the near approach of calamities; he foretells the certainty of divine judgment upon all sin; he clothes himself with the thunders of the Jewish prophets; he seems to invoke woe, desolation, and destruction.

And he read to the people out of the Book of Magicians, which tells the comings of the comet and foretells his coming again.

it claims at least this praise; The dearth of information and good sense, That it foretells us, always comes to pass.

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

Mr. Boudinot observed, that the gentleman had overlooked the prophecy of St. Peter, where he foretells that among other damnable heresies, "Through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandize of you."

He then is taken to hear a sermon, where for his special benefit, I suppose, the preacher expatiates on the glorious field of Bunker's Hill, foretells England's decline, and generously promises our countrymen a home in America when they are quite "used up."

I knew the Indian superstition that if this animal is heard to bark anywhere near a dwelling, he foretells death within twenty-four hours to some one beneath its roof.

"Will, in the first Persons, promises or threatens: But in the second and third Persons, it barely foretells.

"Will, in the first Persons, promises or threatens; but in the second and third Persons, it barely foretells.

"Will, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretells.

[Fist] Murray's Second Edition has it "foretells."

In the second and third persons it only foretells.

"Will, in the first person implies resolution and promising; in the second and third, it foretells.

"Shall, in the first person, simply foretells."Ib., p. 51.

"Of perfect knowledge, see, the dawning light Foretells a noon most exquisitely bright!

The Prophetess who foretells it, is an Hungry Harpy, as the Person who discovers it is young Ascanius.

Cassandra then foretells th'event, but she Finds no belief (such was the gods' decree).

That wicked fame which their first love proclaim'd, Foretells the end: the queen with rage inflamed, 20 Thus greets him: 'Thou dissembler!

Lastly the pictures represent How Sarah listens in the tent While God Almighty, come to earth, Foretells to Abraham the birth Of Isaac and his seed thereafter.

To this question the following pages undertake to give a brief but scriptural, and so a reasonable and conclusive answer; and to such only as do not believe that God ever foretells the history of nations, or that his providence ever works in their development and decline, can the subject fail to be one of interest.

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