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  • And God has made them participants in his own happiness: They have foretasted it in this world, and in the world beyond, they enjoy it in plenitude.

    Archive 2008-11-02 papabear 2008

  • And God has made them participants in his own happiness: They have foretasted it in this world, and in the world beyond, they enjoy it in plenitude.

    On All Saints' Day papabear 2008

  • And God has made them participants in his own happiness: They have foretasted it in this world, and in the world beyond, they enjoy it in plenitude.

    Archive 2008-11-01 papabear 2008

  • She should suffer, too — and the foretasted anguish and pleasure of hot recriminations dulled all other feelings in him.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • He foretasted his disgrace even as he pulled the trigger.

    Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • For a moment, in the joy of anticipation, a strange light illuminated his face, his lips parted as in a foretasted wonder, and he forgot even to drop the hand he had just withdrawn.

    The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story 1881

  • The young girl sat still and dreamed that the old world was as young as she, and that in its soft bosom there were exquisite sweetnesses untried, and soft yearnings for a beautiful unknown, and little pulses that could quicken with foretasted joy which only needed face and name to take angelic shape of present love.

    Adam Johnstone's Son 1881

  • When she was ready to go up to Muro, she knew that without those letters life in such a solitude would be well nigh unsupportable, whereas, being able to look forward to them, and to answering them, her hours of idleness were already a foretasted pleasure.

    Taquisara 1881

  • She foretasted the day when a vulgar prefix would no longer attach to her name, and when the journals of society would reflect her rising effulgence.

    The Odd Women George Gissing 1880

  • Mrs. Bingham already foretasted the bliss of an invitation to the rectory to meet Lady Caroline from Thaxton Manor; she already foretasted the greater bliss of not meeting her intimate friends there, and that most exquisite conceivable bliss of telling them afterwards all about the party.

    Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

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