Sentence example with the word 'foretells'

foretells

Last update: October 29, 2015


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But the tendency to ascribe the disasters of northern Israel to the priesthood (see esp. Hosea) takes another form when an inserted prophecy revokes the privileges of the ancient and honourable family, foretells its overthrow, and announces the rise of a new faithful and everlasting priesthood, at whose hands the dispossessed survivors, reduced to poverty, would beg some priestly office to secure a livelihood (i Sam.   [Please select]

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AB foretells C; but ABCDEF rushes yet more strongly upon G.   [Please select]

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For a young woman to get into an abbey, foretells her violent illness.   [Please select]

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To see your abdomen shriveled, foretells that you will be persecuted and defied by false friends.   [Please select]

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To see blood oozing from the abdomen, foretells an accident or tragedy in your family.   [Please select]

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To pick them from the ground, foretells success after weary labors.   [Please select]

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To see others acquitted, foretells that your friends will add pleasure to your labors.   [Please select]

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To dream that you seek adulation, foretells that you will pompously fill unmerited positions of honor.   [Please select]

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To see others advancing, foretells that friends will hold positions of favor near you.   [Please select]

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Even this can be paralleled among instruments: the behaviour of the barometer has a present stimulus but foretells the future, so that the barometer might be said, in a sense, to know the future.   [Please select]

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_One who speaks_ about the _stars_; one who foretells events by the stars, or interprets the supposed influence of the stars.   [Please select]

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