But the greatest minds are far from foreseeing all the consequences of their deeds, and all the perils proceeding from their successes.
Foreseeing that the violent government of Alva could not long subsist without exciting some commotion, she ventured to commit an insult upon him, which she would have been cautious not to hazard against a more established authority.
The earl of Murray, foreseeing such turbulent times, and being desirous to keep free of these dangerous factions, had some time before desired and obtained Mary's permission to retire into France.
Elizabeth made no answer to this letter; being unwilling to give Mary a refusal in her present situation, and foreseeing inconveniencies from granting some of her requests.
Foreseeing the horrors which their defeat would entail, Emineh, touched with compassion, issued from her seclusion and cast herself at Ali's feet.
Luckily, the colonel, foreseeing a result almost inevitable from the want of troops at his disposal, had withdrawn the whole of the population of the suburb into San Lucar.
Many of the number, who were at first fired by the spirit of adventure and a desire to remain at Niagara, now, foreseeing the suffering to be undergone, desired to return with Vaudreuil; but nearly all were compelled to remain at the fort.
His first act was to fortify this point strongly as though already foreseeing the recall of the sturdy Frontenac and the consequential uprising of the slumbering Iroquois.
Before that period arrived, foreseeing the consequences, I had often written to the King and the Queen my mother, to offer something to the King my husband by way of accommodating matters.
He had, instead, the foreseeing mind, and the meaning of that vast panorama of fortress, hills, river and forest did not escape him.
He had been the first commander-in-chief of the Northern army, and, foreseeing the great scale of the coming war, had prepared a wide and cautious plan.
The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeingfuture events, esp.
The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
The dreadful news was accompanied by a bill of exchange for a thousand crowns, which he had sent me twenty-four hours before his death, foreseeing that it would be the last gift he would ever make me.
All the earls and bishops approved loudly; and away Hereward went to the Wash, his heart well-nigh broken, foreseeingnothing but evil.
She hurried back to Ranald, fearing treason, and foreseeing the effect of the message upon the monks.
So it oft befalleth foreseeing women, that the love of a man cloudeth their vision.
They were thought to be wiser than most men in foreseeing things to come.
I understand, and foreseeing that such might be the case, I took, in spite of my ignorance of affairs, certain precautions.
And up the stairs he dragged Monte Cristo; who, ignorant of what had happened, followed him in astonishment, foreseeing some new catastrophe.
So the Sultan's poets were sent for and bade to tell of that city, foreseeing its splendour far away to the South and in the future of time; and some were found fortunate.
But Addington, foreseeing that Pitt would claim his two former offices, had concocted a sovereign remedy for all these personal sores.
Foreseeing the collapse of Austria, he sought to assure peace with France and Spain by conquering enough territory oversea to counterbalance the triumphs of Bonaparte and Moreau in Italy and the Rhineland.
Valerie, foreseeing the approaching collapse of the old beau of the Empire, determined to forestall it.
Gaudissart, foreseeing the probable end of the unequal contest.
The Scripture thus speaks, foreseeing what Rome would do.
But now suppose God, foreseeingthese very results of creation, should create.
Some men are induced to do wrong through heedlessness or blindness, not knowing the gravity of their deeds, and not foreseeing a dire result.
There is no foreseeing what may happen before morning.
Foreseeing my explanation, she had turned flutteringly away before my final words came, and was still holding the empty copper tray on which she had brought our breakfast.
There is no foreseeing what this diversion will accomplish.
You are reduced to saying that He foresees it; but foreseeing is conjecturing.
You are forced to admit an intelligence diffused over the universe; but (1) do you know, for instance, if this power reaches right to foreseeing the future?
Therefore except it be to a rich man that feeleth not the loss, or one that expressly undertook to stand to all hazards, foreseeing a possibility of them, charity and humanity will teach the seller to divide the loss.
And therefore here christian prudence, foreseeing consequents, and weighing the good and evil together, is necessary to him that will know a duty from a sin, and a scandal from no scandal.
The wisdom of our fathers, foreseeing even the most dire possibilities, made sure that the government should never be imperiled because of the uncertainty of human life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreseeing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
