The manner in which you have just extricated us from the late danger, has a direct tendency to contradict all that you were pleased to foretel of that which is to come.
It is droll enough that such a fellow should dare to foretel so elevated a fate for me!
Doesn't the rotten' crops, the unhealthy air, an' the green damp foretel it?
Look about you, and say what is it you see that does not foretel famine--famine--famine!
Doesn't the sky without a sun, the heavy clouds, an' the angry fire of the West, foretel it?
I know the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the twelve signs of the zodiac; I can calculate nativities; I can foretel every thing that is to happen!
I know the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the twelve signs of the zodiac; I can calculate nativities; I can foretel everything that is to happen!
Thus far the furious transport of the news Had to prophetic madness fired the muse; Madness ungovernable, uninspired, Swift to foretel whatever she desired.
These men can certainly foretel Eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
No comet need foretelhis change drew on, Whose corpse might seem a constellation.
The landlord, seeing the drift of the inquiry, spoke highly of the stranger's superior science, which he described as being sufficient to foretel the destinies of the bey.
The things of this world are so mutable, that we cannot foretel what constitutions may be established hereafter.
But God had power to send him on his business; to enable him to make himself visible, and foretel the evils which then hung over Saul and Israel: And from several considerations we think it evident that he did do it.
And most expressly did it foretel the evils which were coming on the offending inquirer, his family and people!
God hath sometimes used wicked men to foretel future events, and compelled them to denounce his judgments; but have we any account of his making this use of fallen angels?
Balaam was made to bless Israel and foretel their greatness, while yet the enemy of Israel, and of the God of Israel; and Jonah, to bear God's messages to Nineveh.
Book, where he handleth this point at large, and concludeth that the Devils can no moreforetel things come, than they are able to discern the thoughts that are within us.
This is the ordinary and open way of his providence, which Art and Industry have in a good part discovered, whose effects we may foretel without an Oracle: to foreshew these, is not Prophesie, but Prognostication.
Some of them are skilful in astronomy, especially their chief, and they foreteleclipses of the sun and moon.
There is a curious account of Attius Nævius, a famous augur, (this signifies a kind of prophet, who could foretel future events.
They soon became very much respected at Rome, and were consulted on all cases of emergency, as they were supposed to foretel future events.
Yes, papa; it is declared that a sudden flame, in the form of a crown, surrounded his head one day whilst he was asleep, which was supposed to foretel his future greatness.
These devices are taken out by the Chinese on new-years day, and are considered as oracles, which foretel the good or ill luck of the person, by whom they are drawn, during the following year.
These persons pretend to foretel events by the information of the Kugans or Dæmons.
It would appear they are not merely temporary, for the mule-drivers can often foretelwith tolerable accuracy where they will be encountered.
Moths and Sphinxes also foretel fine weather when they are common in the evening.
When an owl hoots or screeches, sitting on the top of a house, or by the side of a window, it is said to foretel death.
Cats, when they "wash their faces," or when they seem sleepy and dull, foretel rain.
Cocks, when they crow at unwonted hours, often foretel rain; when they crow all day, in summer particularly, a change to rain frequently follows.
Horses foretel the coming of rain by starting more than ordinarily, and by restlessness on the road.
Bats flitting about late in the evening in spring and autumnforetel a fine day on the morrow; as do Dorbeetles and some other insects.
Cranes were said of old to foretelrain when they retreated to the valleys, and returned from their aerial flight.
Peacocks squalling by night often foretel a rainy day.
Beetles flying about late in the evening often foretel a fine day on the morrow.
Mice when they squeak much, and gambol in the house, foretel a change of weather, and often rain.
To prophesy, or foretel future events, was the main purport of Pagan rites; no undertaking of any moment being entered upon until the priests and oracles had been previously consulted.
Blayney, could they be shewn to foretel one and the same event; but against this, there are, what appear to me, conclusive objections.
He pretends to be a Conjurer, and to foretel things; but that was the truest Prophecy ever he spoke, though he knew not whom he spoke of.
People; but in our Language we understand them to be People that have an Art to reveal Secrets, interpret Dreams, foretel Events, &c.
A Scrap of Parchment hung by Geometry (A great Refinement in Barometry) Can, like the Stars, foretel the Weather; And what is Parchment else but Leather?
Should some of these, in visions purged from phlegm, Foretel events, or in a morning dream.
They foretelthe opposition and enmity that would arise, in the minds of the Jewish nation, to the Christ of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foretel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
