Foreseeing
[fɔ:'si:ɪŋ]
Examples
- But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You must concede that there are abuses, Hawley, said Mr. Hackbutt, foreseeing some political disagreement with his family lawyer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was no foreseeing at that time whether he would be absent months or years. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was he who, foreseeing that questions might be asked regarding the disposal of the money, forced me to account for it as I did. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Happily he was not farther from approving matrimony than from foreseeing it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She said this with such great significance that Ada and I glanced at one another, foreseeing something more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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