Absalom ran out into the rain without his hat, his heart in the clutch of a prescient terror.
The dogs lifted their heads to look, and one soft-stepping old hound got up with the nimbleness of expectation, and, with a prescient gratitude astir in his tail, went and sniffed at it.
To fly these shores theprescient Theban shade And Circe warn!
Some such visit had been anticipated by the prescient woman, so there was no reddening.
It must assuredly have been by mere accident that Reginald entered while she was thus employed, and reminded her how he had, with prescient hope, foretold this very scene amongst the rocky cliffs of the far distant Andes.
Poor Ethelston’s tongue clove to his mouth; the prescient agony of a father overcame him.
Through all those serried ranks, Compact so late, sudden confusions ran Like lines divergent through a film of ice Stamped on by armèd heel, or rifts on plains Prescient of earthquake underground.
Their military and prescient sagacity was evinced in employing one of the most celebrated of their engineers, to improve and bring nearly to perfection the defence of a city which may be termed the citadel of Italy.
The prescient eye, which was as accurate by land as by sea, had also foreseen the instant advance of the French to Naples.
The Basque stood staring at him, inarticulate with fury; Don Mike faced his enemy with a bantering, prescient little smile.
She gave him a tender, prescientlittle smile--the smile of one who sees beyond a veil objects not visible to the eyes of other mortals.
Campania, prescient of her Pompey's fate, Send a kind fever to arrest his date: 415 When lo!
And prompts you, prescient of the public weal, Now to disclose your thoughts, and now conceal!
You have not yet seen that illustrious Polander; his prescient watchfulness for his country keeps him so constantly employed on the frontiers.
I see Me with brains to know, with prescient mind to grasp, with mobile sense to feel.
Prescient in the changes of the season, they have been the first to go.
The whole village seems to me like so many prescient beavers, in a vast snow-bank, who cut away the snow and make paths, every morning, from one lodge to another.
The small boys played at soldiers; some of the more prescient mothers laid in stores.
It was not until the American Resolution that this began to be dimly realized by a few prescient thinkers.
Thus o'er my mind did prescientvisions float Of all that matchless woman yet may be; When hark!
While prescient of the gifted race That yet would realm so blest adorn, Nature took pains to deck the place Where glorious Art was to be born.
Posterity owes to the prescient spirit of Dugdale the ancient Monuments of England, which bear the marks of the haste, as well as the zeal, which have perpetuated them.
In those prescient views by which the genius of Verulam has often anticipated the institutions and the discoveries of succeeding times, there was one important object which even his foresight does not appear to have contemplated.
There were some amongst them who, possibly prescient of the future, declined to subscribe to terms which would tie their hands.
Obviously, then, our Lord is looking down a far future, and giving a charge to the dim crowd of His later disciples, whom His prescient eye saw pressing behind the twelve in days to come.
And the present moment verifies the prescient conjecture of the philosopher.
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