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  • verb Present participle of foreshow.

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Examples

  • The grass was dry and bleached after an almost rainless autumn, but the sky was overcast and heavy with the foreshowing of change.

    A River So Long 2010

  • With foreshowing complete after 200 plus pages, people will start to die painful horrible deaths, I just know it.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2008

  • I have translated “Anwá” by Pleiads; but it means the setting of one star and simultaneous rising of another foreshowing rain.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And look; for haply the days may restore them without foreshowing:

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • These declared that the god was foreshowing to the Hellenes a leaving1024 of their cities, saying that the Sun was the foreshower of events for the Hellenes, but the Moon for the

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • And at that very time Mithridates, it is said, saw a vision in his dream foreshowing what should come to pass.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • The grass was dry and bleached after an almost rainless autumn, but the sky was overcast and heavy with the foreshowing of change.

    Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

  • "Say Pan saith: 'Let this, foreshowing the place, be the pledge!'"

    Graded Poetry: Seventh Year Various

  • As a perfect illustration of the President's policy, two men from Massachusetts should have been assigned to each member from South Carolina, as foreshowing the future relative power of the white men of the two States in the government of the country.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • Thus, for example, the blood of the lamb which was slain on the Jewish altar was a type, or a foreshowing, of the crucifixion of

    Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous

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