How To Use Foretoken In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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He is said to have eaten a toad as a child, an act foretokening a martial destiny.
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Away to the east a shimmering silveryness beneath a palace of aerial cloud foretokened moonrise.
The Story Girl
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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
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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
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Or contrast with Addison's Italian letters passages like these, which foretoken Rogers and Byron.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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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
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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
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The priest assures Phormion that the entrails of the victim foretokened every possible favor in future athletic contests -- and this, and his insinuating smile, win him a silver drachma to supplement his share of the lamb.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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The certainty of their ultimate Illumination, or Buddhaship, was always foretokened by certain presages.
The Story of Sumedha. I. The Buddha. Translated from the Introduction to the Jtaka (i. 31).
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Found on his person was a letter to his sweetheart, the wording of which foretokened exactly the manner of his death.
Cold Mountain
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Vienna lectures of 1810 foretoken Ruskin's philippics against railways and factories.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Actually this foretokened that the formal independence of the republic would also be nullified.
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When Mrs. Blewett smiled, it foretokened trouble, and wise people had learned to have sudden business else -
Chronicles of Avonlea
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The Next Big Things on the Internet aren't usually foretokened by business models or white papers, said Popkin.
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He spent much of his time swimming in nihilistic little circles and had a lethargy that some saw as foretokening an early death.
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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.
An Iceland Fisherman
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The first foretoken evidence of BPH is the frequency of requisite to urinate.
CALL FOR TESTIMONIALS
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Thomson's denunciation of the slave trade, and of cruelty to animals, especially the caging of birds and the coursing of hares; his preference of country to town; his rhapsodies on domestic love and the innocence of the Golden Age; his contrast between the misery of the poor and the heartless luxury of the rich; all these features of the poem foretoken the sentimentalism of Sterne and Goldsmith, and the humanitarianism of
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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On the opposite side of the house, several hundred yards away, the country turnpike ran; and from this there now reached them the rumbling of many vehicles, hurrying in close procession out of the nearest town and moving toward smaller villages scattered over the country; to its hamlets and cross-roads and hundreds of homes richer or poorer -- every vehicle Christmas-laden: sign and foretoken of the
Bride of the Mistletoe
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Miss Corona was sure there was another meaning in it too; she believed it foretokened some change in her own life, some rejuvenescence of love and beauty like to that of the ancient rose-tree.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
