148 examples of forewarning in sentences

The face of nature seemed to be a mirror of our fortunes, for when I woke the freshness had gone out of the air, and in the overcast sky there was a forewarning of storm.

Even with themlet the forewarning be candidyou will not accomplish everything.

But once we have established the tone, we should notexcept sometimes for broadly humorous effectschange it needlessly or without clear forewarning.

No one else had the least forewarning of any break in the services.

Now when the last hour of his life drew nigh, Cuchullin woke from dreams forewarning death; And cold and awesome came the night-bird's cry An evil omen the magician saith A low gust panted like a man's last breath, As morning crept into the chamber black; Then all his weapons clashed and tumbled from the rack.

And, with a sweet forewarning, Mak'st round the sacred front an aureole glow Woven of that light that rose on Easter morning.

The little one, with a forewarning of the attack, which it dreads, falls on his knees, or clings closely to any thing near him.

The discipline observed on this march was a terrible forewarning to the people of the Netherlands of the influence of the general and the obedience of the troops.

I foresee this with regret, but it is my duty to forewarn you.

Only a Farfan escaped, not without suspicion of forewarning by the rebels.

respicere finem [Lat.]; keep a sharp lookout &c (vigilance) 459; forewarn &c 668.

V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate^, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn &c 668. presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow^; portend; foreshow^, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify^, ominate^, signify, point to.

But here they were met with some sort of resistance, for the Moors aboard, seeing the fate of their comrades, forewarning them of theirs, had turned their swivel gun about and now firedthe ball carrying off the head of Joe Groves, the best man of all that crew, if one were better than another.

As he expected, she said: "Go on; is the other reason as good as that one?" Making his expression grim, he leaned suddenly forward, and though the width of the room separated them, she drew back a little, as though the shadow of his coming cast a forewarning shade across her.

Here, where all visitors to the Minnesota Mines are received and entertained, we prove avant-couriers of the slowly advancing wagon-load,"the largest party of ladies ever met there," they tell us, as we forewarn our hosts of the band so boldly invading their copper-bound country.

To-day they seem to convey little forewarning of the matchless lyric gift that was soon to awaken, being a shade too intellectual and sententious.

Mézeray and Matthieu both assert that the birth of the Dauphin was preceded by an earthquake, which, with the usual superstition of the period, was afterwards declared to have been a forewarning of the ceaseless wars by which Europe was convulsed during his reign.

When she saw him coming toward them in traveling suit, instead of the white serge he always wore on such days as was that, she knew he was going awaya fortunate forewarning, for she thus had time to force a less telltale expression before he announced the reason for his call.

Whenever he had seen the widow this subconsciousness had asserted itself, forewarning him that he had known her long before that transatlantic voyage.

Damer: There is some shiver forewarning me I will lose!

As it was, she was not above a certain forewarning sense that made her say with an air of inconsequence as Claire finished her recital: "Mrs. Towne tells me that there is a chance that Mr. Stillman's wife may get well.

He knew not one forewarning pain; He never will come home again Is dead, for ever dead!" 1050 Beside the Woman Peter stands; His heart is opening more and more; A holy sense pervades his mind; He feels what he for human-kind Had never felt before.

Thou art a dew-drop, which the morn brings forth, Ill fitted to sustain unkindly shocks, Or to be trailed along the soiling earth; A gem that glitters while it lives, 30 And no forewarning gives;

The approach of a hurricane is usually indicated by a long swell on the ocean, propagated to great distances, and forewarning the observer by two or three days.

Morning Beheld you in the Turret walled by adamant, where a spirit forewarning And all-deriding called: "Man, darest thoudesperate, unappalled Be first to lock thee in the armored tower?

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