"Foreseen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from their nature unsatisfactorily and with whatever human weakness, let us now endeavour mentally to transport ourselves to a period immediately antecedent to our own world's birth. We should then have been made aware that a great event was about to take place; whereat, from its foreseen consequences, the hierarchies of heaven would be prompt to shout for joy, and the holy ones of God to sing for gratitude. It was no common case of a creation; no merely onemore orb, of third-rate unimportance, amongst the million others of higher ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... contrast with the bright goodness and simplicity I remembered in former days, how much more painful is that part of his story to which we are now come perforce, and which the acute reader of novels has, no doubt, long foreseen? Yes, sir or madam, you are quite right in the opinion which you have held all along regarding that Bundelcund Banking Company, in which our Colonel has invested every rupee he possesses, Solvuntur rupees, etc. I disdain, for the most part, the tricks and surprises of the novelist's ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... seen the smaller monasteries in Gloucester dissolved two years before, and the more thoughtful of them must have foreseen that it was a mere question of time for the greedy king to absorb the larger ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] • H. J. L. J. Masse
... of Milton on their heads! If the translators of the Bible had foreseen 'Zeb[u]lun', they would have chosen some other word than 'princes' to avoid the cacophony of 'the princes ...
— Society for Pure English Tract 4 - The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin • John Sargeaunt
... second or two Cassidy had foreseen the impending thing, and with the movement of the other's ...
— The Country Beyond - A Romance of the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood
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