But I saw it was impracticable; I foresaw that my aunt would insist upon a Polish painter.
Thus I foresaw that Kromitzki, getting hold of the money, would leave Gastein immediately and release me from the torments his presence near Aniela gives me.
He foresaw that by the spirit of truth inherent in all knowledge and emanating from the supreme Spirit of Life, His teaching would be tested and purged of whatever false interpretations idolatrous generations of men might place upon it.
It is quite possible that the offer of peace was made in good faith, and that Malachy and his friends were unduly suspicious when they "foresaw guile.
The bystanders answered that he should rather come to the bishop, and that the church was a more suitable place for establishing peace; for they foresaw guile.
I reasoned, not as one that hopes, but rather as one that foresaw that Edgar would hinder me from shortening my days.
He wanted capital to the amount of two million crowns, for he foresaw that otherwise the lottery would collapse, as people would not risk their money without the certainty of being paid in the event of their winning.
As we foresawthat our expedition to the peak would be very precipitate, we consoled ourselves with the reflection that it was well not to expose instruments which were to serve us in countries less known by Europeans.
She foresaw an interminable, weary and futile future in and about Moze, and her mother always indisposed, always fretful, and curiously obstinate in weakness.
I foresaw that I might be killed and plundered before I was able to fulfil the orders of Victoria and her son.
A widow with her son, for whom she foresaw a glorious future, bravely verified by himself since then, Victoria never left the camp.
The tradesmen and manufacturers of those countries, equally with their statesmen, dimly but apprehensively foresaw what has since in our later time come to pass.
Expert as he was in all that pertained to naval warfare, he foresaw that the mortar fleet assigned to him could accomplish nothing, and that its presence in his squadron could be nothing other than an embarrassment.
They foresaw the conquest of the world's markets by American industry.
On the one hand, he was fearful of a discovery; on the other, he foresaw that, without proper assistance, there was danger of losing one he so much loved.
Very prudent that she was, she foresaw clearly what might happen to him and to all the kingdom.
Pardon me, but he foresaw your impetuosity; and I have another note for Lady Lansmere, in which he begs her ladyship not to sanction your return to him (should you so wish) until he come or send for you himself.
Randal, however, ran over in his fearful mind what evidence could be brought against him--and foresaw none.
He understood the Gauls, and foresaw what must have happened.
He disapproved of the course which his friends were taking; he foresaw what must come of it; but he had been overruled, and he made the best of what he could not help.
It consoles me to remember that I foresaw these things, and as much feared the success of our cause as the defeat of it.
He no doubt foresaw that the only possible chief would be found in his own family.
He foresaw that when they turned their attention from theology to science and pure speculation, great results might be expected from their solid intellectual capacity.
What, then, rendered Bruno the precursor of modern thought in its various manifestations, was that he grasped the fundamental truth upon which modern science rests, and foresaw the conclusions which must be drawn from it.
He indeed foresaw the attack, and put out his hand with the speed of a lightning flash; but he did not succeed in calculating her movement.
Blair welcomed them as straws indicative of the current, but Ha'o, better versed in the ways of his race, pushed on his preparations for the conflict which he foresaw these very secessions would sooner or later precipitate.
For Captain Cathie, honest man, foresaw such certain trouble from letting the raiders go that he would have strained many points to put it out of their power ever to return.
From his slight knowledge of island ways, Blair foresaw that it was a matter that might lead to constant strife.
The wetness of the evening made promptness of decision the more needful, while the bad weather which his experienced eye foresaw would make the choice more important.
We are struck by the profound genius of Tacitus, who clearly foresaw the calamities which so long ravaged Europe on the fall of the Roman Empire, in a work written five hundred years before the event!
The building proceeded with the same delays, and the payments with the same irregularity; the veteran now foresaw what happened, that he should never be the inhabitant of his own house!
Lorenzo de' Medici had studied the temper of his son Piero; for Guicciardini informs us that he had often complained to his most intimate friends that "he foresaw the imprudence and arrogance of his son would occasion the ruin of his family.
Leibnitz, indeed, foresaw the results of those selfish, and at length demoralizing, opinions, which began to prevail through Europe in his day.
Guibert unquestionably foresaw the anti-monarchical spirit gathering up its mighty wings, and rising over the universe!
I plainly foresaw that it would be the greatest possible mistake to acquiesce in her desire; and, after a lengthy discussion, Verdi's Traviata was decided upon.
I at once forgot all my troubles, for I now plainly foresaw that she would replace Mdme.
Though excited over the discovery, I resolved to remain calm and act judiciously, for I foresaw that any desire I might express to seek audience of His Majesty would arouse suspicion among the conspirators.
When last night I recognised thee on thine arrival in our camp, I foresawthy deadly peril.
When a routine message came from Fontainebleau requiring Souham's presence there, his guilty conscience made him tremble; and when Gourgaud requested an interview the uneasy general foresaw his own arrest and was terror-stricken.
Vaughan foresaw that there would be a contest for seats at the table, and, without waiting for the ladder, he swung himself to the ground, and entered the house.
Many have the regular prophetic gift; practically every one of them foresaw the assassination of McKinley.
Thoughtful men, indeed, foresaw the foreign conquest long before the expedition of Charles VIII.
Whether he really foresaw this conclusion, we need not inquire.
As early as 1480 Battista Mantovano gives us clearly to understand that most of the inhabitants of the Adriatic coast foresaw something o f this kind, and that Ancona in particular desired it.
But, as the autumn session approached, Tisza foresaw a new campaign of obstruction, and resolved to revert to his drastic reform of the standing orders.
Not only was he personally in favour of a war with Spain for the recovery of the Palatinate, but he foresaw in such a course of action the means of drawing together more closely the king and his parliament.
In 1845 he visited Romagna as an unauthorized political envoy, to report on its conditions and the troubles which he foresaw would break out on the death of Pope Gregory XVI.
At the time, no other disposition was possible; but few foresaw the resulting effect upon the unification of the States.
Madison foresaw contentions, "first between federal and anti-federal parties, and then between northern and southern parties, which give an additional disagreeableness to the prospect.
Washington foresawthe effects of using the military power in behalf of the Union.
The most rigid of the strict-construction Presidents became helpless before them, or neverforesaw their possibilities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foresaw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
