"Forecasting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Royal Opera-house. The audience was the finest society of the court; and even then the musical taste of Berlin, as if forecasting Wagner, used to sneer loftily at that of Vienna, where Flotow was about to produce "Martha," as a taste for tanzmusik. The opera was the "Sonnambula," and after the pretty opening choruses and dances, Amina came tripping to the front through ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis
... of Madagascar and 600 km north of Reunion in the Indian Ocean; climatologically important location for forecasting cyclones ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... fall of 1880, while the weather-wise were wagging their heads, some forecasting a mild, some a severe winter, I watched with interest for a sign from my muskrats. About November 1, a month earlier than the previous year, they began their nest, and worked at it with a will. They appeared to have just got tidings of what was coming. ...
— Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers • John Burroughs
... Long before the thought of any possible union between himself and Ramona had entered into Alessandro's mind, still longer before it had entered into Ramona's to think of Alessandro as a husband, Felipe had spent hours in forecasting, plotting, and planning for them. For the first time in his life he felt himself in the dark as to his mother's probable action. That any concern as to Ramona's personal happiness or welfare would influence her, he knew better than to think for a moment. So far as that was concerned, Ramona ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... little-forecasting, brave, merry boys! God accept you, our offering of first fruits! See that mother—that wife—take them away; it is too much. Comfort them, father, brother; tell them their tears may be ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable
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