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Example sentences for "foretold"

Lexicographically close words:
foretelling; foretells; forethought; forethoughtful; foretokens; foretop; foretopmast; foretopsail; forever; forevermore
  1. On the Deputy's arrival the Bab foretold to him his own (the Bab's) approaching martyrdom and the cruel afflictions which were impending.

  2. Balaam was a true prophet, inspired by God, who foretold things which were followed up by the event; but his morals were very corrupt, and he was extremely self-interested.

  3. How many times has he foretold future events?

  4. After that, Buptages climbed up an oak tree, and foretold that he was about to be devoured by a wolf, which happened.

  5. The Ætolians were desirous of sending to consult the Delphian oracle, but the head of the child began to speak, and foretold the misfortunes which were to happen to their country and to his own mother.

  6. The same thing was foretold to a priest who lived in the same place.

  7. Certainly, nothing is more likely to mislead us than to see what has been foretold by any one come to pass.

  8. He foretold confidently that the Prince should die by the hand of his own familiar friend, a person of a slender habit of body, a small face, a swarthy complexion, and of most remarkable taciturnity.

  9. Talking about fate," said Mustapha, "can you tell his highness a story, in which destiny has been foretold and hath been accomplished?

  10. Before he had whined ten minutes, I foretold that I should go to sleep.

  11. Yes, your highness; and the destiny foretold was truly accomplished.

  12. All that has happened to the unhappy body you mentioned, is what we foretold and expected.

  13. From the Fall, the coming of the great Deliverer was foretold in type and sign, in speech and act, in history and prophecy.

  14. Joel distinctly foretold that in the last days of that dispensation.

  15. This He signified when, after having in His commandment foretold the death of Adam, [Gen.

  16. Long before this Luther had repeatedly expressed the conviction that the Pope was the Antichrist foretold in 2 Thess.

  17. So that these fathers find themselves foretold in the Bible a hundred and ninety-two times.

  18. When the order of the Minimes was established, it appeared that their founder had been foretold in Genesis: "Minimus cum patre nostro.

  19. The fall of a moderate-sized stone, which is preserved in the Gymnasium at Abydos, is also reported to have been foretold by Anaxagoras.

  20. It is all foretold in Holy Writ, Hereward, my son.

  21. I foresaw it, foretold it, I believe to Alftruda herself,--foretold that he would not keep his bought earldom three years.

  22. My stars at least foretold me nothing but woe, since first I saw your face.

  23. But after my experience of how he has kept faith with me, what can I expect for Waltheof the wittol, save that which I have foretold many a time?

  24. Mayerne died of drinking bad wine at a Strand tavern, and foretold the time of his death.

  25. By these words our Lord foretold the cessation of adoration, both according to the rite of the Jews who adored in Jerusalem, and according to the rite of the Samaritans who adored on Mount Garizim.

  26. In the New Testament, however, there were some possessed of the spirit of prophecy, who foretold many things about future events.

  27. For some have stated that the stars signify rather than cause the things foretold by means of their observation.

  28. The Sibyl too foretold certain things about Christ, as Augustine states (Contra Faust.

  29. Further, just as something is foretold in denunciation, so is something foretold in promise, and both of these are subject to alteration.

  30. His future immolation; and since other prophets had foretold it, as may be seen especially in Isaias 53.

  31. Wherefore also the Sibyls foretold many true things about Christ.

  32. Now he foretold many true things, for instance that which is to be found in Num.

  33. The prophets who foretold the coming of Christ could not continue further than John, who with his finger pointed to Christ actually present.

  34. Wherefore although by God's will the soul itself of Samuel foretold to Saul the issue of the war as revealed to him by God, this pertains to the nature of prophecy.

  35. Certain danger was foretold from the extension of our territory, the multiplication of States, and the increase of population.

  36. And my father," said Lucilla, unheeding the answer, "always foretold that thy lot and mine were to be entwined.

  37. But your father foretold me, dearest--cross and disappointment in my love--was he not wrong?

  38. That there was to be a new and final dispensation after the great apostasy from primitive Christianity foretold by the apostles, is evident from the statement of Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians.

  39. All that has been foretold by the holy prophets concerning them is about to be literally fulfilled.

  40. Thus not only the restoration of the gospel after the great apostasy that was to take place was foretold by holy men of God, but the manner of its revelation was also explained.

  41. The girls were so sagacious that they foretold when their fits would come on.

  42. Amongst those in the Fylde district was a man named Cardwell, of Marton, near Blackpool, who foretold deaths and evil events from his vision of things to come.

  43. Art thou he whose birth was foretold in such a wonderful manner?

  44. But in her presence he resolutely put off gloom, spoke with sanguine tongue of the prosperity he foresaw during the coming spring, and always foretold the frost must break within four-and-twenty-hours.

  45. This indeed was the harder to him because Clement Hicks predicted a different issue and foretold an action of most malignant sort on the miller's part.

  46. She was a woman with her father, cooed pleasantly to him, foretold good things, and implored him to have greater care of his health and her love than to court illness by this display of passion.

  47. Therefore I seek refuge in the arms of the Sun, as the oracle Rimac foretold that I should do, having to choose between this fate and that of death.

  48. The philosophers of Paris foretold to me that I could not conduct him to Calais without a quarrel; but I think I could live with him all my life in mutual friendship and esteem.

  49. He has the highest opinion of your skill, Mr. Lilly, as he cannot blind himself to the fact that you foretold his father's death.

  50. Vidar now came rushing from a distant part of the plain to avenge the death of his mighty sire, and the doom foretold fell upon Fenris, whose lower jaw now felt the impress of that shoe which had been reserved for this day.

  51. She foretold his approaching death, which indeed happened shortly after through a fall from his steed.

  52. The wizard Merlin is said to have foretold another landing of Norsemen here, to precede the end of the world; perhaps he meant the Germans.


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    Other words:
    forecast; foreseen; foreshown; predicted; presaged; prophesied