"Foreshow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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 |
