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  • In some places it was necessary to enlarge the passage - way and that, too, had been foreplanned.

    Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975

  • In slavery was the evident and necessary foe of all that God had foreplanned for our Nation, because slavery denies the rights of men.

    The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 01, January, 1890 Various

  • Thus the two lovers of Melicent foreplanned the future, and did not admit into their accounting vagarious Dame Chance.

    Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918

  • All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets here, too, moved as

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • It was the sort of gathering that in boyhood -- and in later life also, for that matter -- he had foreplanned to thrill and dazzle, as he perfectly recollected.

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • The name of James A. Garfield, the successful nominee, and in political parlance the "dark horse" (undoubtedly foreplanned but kept in the shade), was suddenly sprung upon the Convention and amid a whirlwind of excitement quickly received adherents from the opposition which increased in volume at each successive balloting, until the climax was reached that gave General

    Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885

  • All seemed predestined and foreplanned from all time, to be acted out to the end.

    Saracinesca 1881

  • But look not so pale, Mascari; I have foreplanned all things.

    Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Such was her parting concern; for after this she had time only to pay her farewell compliments to Mrs. Jennings, before her company was claimed by Mrs. Richardson; and Elinor was left in possession of knowledge which might feed her powers of reflection some time, though she had learnt very little more than what had been already foreseen and foreplanned in her own mind.

    Sense and Sensibility 1833

  • Such was her parting concern; for after this, she had time only to pay her farewell compliments to Mrs. Jennings, before her company was claimed by Mrs. Richardson; and Elinor was left in possession of knowledge which might feed her powers of reflection some time, though she had learnt very little more than what had been already foreseen and foreplanned in her own mind.

    Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1833

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