"Foretoken" Quotes from Famous Books
... old lips reply, "Youth may pass and strength may die; But of Love I can't foretoken: Ask some ... — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various
... first, the long-cherished desire to have a posterity; second, the exalted vocation of administering in the Holy Place and offering up with the incense the prayers of the people to the throne of Jehovah, which seemed to Zacharias to foretoken the acceptance of his own prayer; and third, perhaps an exhortation from his wife as he left his house, similar to that of Rachel to Jacob. Gen. xxx. 1. In this highly excited state of mind, as he prays in the dimly-lighted sanctuary, he thinks ... — History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst |