foretoken

How To Use foretoken In A Sentence

• When Mrs. Blewett smiled it foretokened trouble, and wise people had learned to have sudden business elsewhere before the smile could be translated into words. Chronicles of Avonlea
• It was long, very long, since she had seen her with that look of happy anticipation in her face -- never since the good days at Lilac Lodge, before she had quarrelled so irrevocably with her husband -- and the maid wondered whether it foretokened a reconciliation. The Splendid Folly
• So it is foretokened that a soaring development in their population may be witnessed on cotton crop across the cotton growing areas during next week.
• He is said to have eaten a toad as a child, an act foretokening a martial destiny.
• Away to the east a shimmering silveryness beneath a palace of aerial cloud foretokened moonrise. The Story Girl
• Yet in that short, hopeful moment, she had felt him so near to her that it was as if his spirit had floated over the sea unto her, -- what is called a foretoken (_pressigne_) in Breton land; and she listened still more attentively to the steps outside, trusting that some one might come to her to speak of him. Great Sea Stories
• The sense, the inward feeling, in the soul of each believer, of its exceeding 'desirableness' -- the experience, that he 'needs' something, joined with the strong foretokening, that the redemption and the graces propounded to us in Christ are 'what' he needs -- this I hold to be the true foundation of the spiritual edifice. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
• Or contrast with Addison's Italian letters passages like these, which foretoken Rogers and Byron. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
• In one of his Advent sermons he said, "The heathen write that the comet may arise from natural causes, but God creates not one that does not foretoken a sure calamity. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
• They say that eclipses foretoken misfortune, because misfortunes are common, so that, as evil happens so often, they often foretell it; whereas if they said that they predict good fortune, they would often be wrong. Pens��es