"Foretoken" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which was true enough, I dare say, for more spinsters and widows were taken ailing about this time than had ever been ill at once before. Be that as it may, certain arrangements which the Doctor presently made in his domestic affairs did not seem to foretoken an immediate change ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various
... of mind. The exciting causes were, first, the long-cherished desire to have a posterity; second, the exalted vocation of administering in the Holy Place and offering up with the incense the prayers of the people to the throne of Jehovah, which seemed to Zacharias to foretoken the acceptance of his own prayer; and third, perhaps an exhortation from his wife as he left his house, similar to that of Rachel to Jacob. Gen. xxx. 1. In this highly excited state of mind, as he prays in the dimly-lighted ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst
... lips reply, "Youth may pass and strength may die; But of Love I can't foretoken: Ask ...
— The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics • Various |
