Foreshow v. t. (past foreshowed; past part. foreshown; pres. part. foreshowing) To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. "Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart.""Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows."
... wind tells of the coming rain that it bears upon its wings; the deep stillness of the woods, and the lengthened shadows they cast upon the stream, silently but surely foreshow the bursting of the thunder-cloud; and who that has lived for any time upon the coast, can mistake the language of the waves; that deep prophetic surging that ushers in the terrible gale? So it is with the human ... — Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie Read full book for free!
... stay'd; But, bowing to the bridegroom and the bride, Did, like a shooting exhalation, glide Out of their sights: the turning of her back Made them all shriek, it look'd so ghastly black. O hapless Hero! that most hapless cloud Thy soon-succeeding tragedy foreshow'd. Thus all the nuptial crew to joys depart; But much-wrung Hero stood Hell's blackest dart: Whose wound because I grieve so to display, I use digressions thus t'increase ... — Hero and Leander and Other Poems • Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman Read full book for free!
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