foretoken

How To Use foretoken In A Sentence

• Found on his person was a letter to his sweetheart, the wording of which foretokened exactly the manner of his death. Cold Mountain
• 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
• 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
• 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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• 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
• He spent much of his time swimming in nihilistic little circles and had a lethargy that some saw as foretokening an early death.
• The Next Big Things on the Internet aren't usually foretokened by business models or white papers, said Popkin.
• When Mrs. Blewett smiled, it foretokened trouble, and wise people had learned to have sudden business else - Chronicles of Avonlea
• Actually this foretokened that the formal independence of the republic would also be nullified.