prefigurings

Sometimes it scared her, the first signs of halting response, the losses and failings, the grim prefigurings that issued now and then from a mind beginning to slide away from the adhesive friction that makes an individual possible.

Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007

It is hard to see that Marx's Civil War in France (1871), several introductions to later editions by him and Engels, and frequent references in his correspondence betoken only a "passing enthusiasm"; nor does there seem to be much textual evidence that Marx "found in the Commune prefigurings of a vaguely articulated utopia which would, of course, be anarchist in some sense."

Mao & the Paris Commune Jellinek, Frank 1973

In reality one finds that over great numbers of heavily loaded pages, everything has been transmuted into prophecies and prefigurings.

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

As dynasties and thrones have been predictions of the royalty of the people, so old courts and old capitals, with all their pomp and circumstance, their parks and gardens, galleries and statues, are but dim prefigurings of the glories of architecture, the grandeur of the grounds, the splendor and richness of the museums and conservatories with which the people will finally crown their own self-respect and decorate their own majesty.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

The train reported -- he took it as a special miracle wrought in his behalf that the Flyer was for this once abreast of her schedule -- he fell to tramping up and down the long platform, deep in anticipative prefigurings.

The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

It was hard -- harder than even his own prefigurings had forecast it.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

As a mental analyst he knew that the opening of each fresh door in the house of present familiarity was automatically closing other doors opening upon the past; and it came to him with a little flush of the seer's exaltation that once again his prefigurings were finding their exact fulfilment.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

Again in harmony with the later prefigurings, he was using each of the young women as a foil for the other in the outworking of his plot; and he welcomed it as a sign of growth that the story in its new form was acquiring verisimilitude and becoming gratefully, and at times, he persuaded himself, quite vividly, human.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

His prefigurings had not been so wide of the mark, after all.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

But here was Bathsheba in her own person; and the reality of the scene was so much intenser than any of his prefigurings that he felt he had not half enough considered the point.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874