foreshows

Weather lore expert Thomas Willsford, writing in the 17th century, was one of the first people to record this phenomenon: "When on a sudden they do forsake the valleys and low grounds, it foreshows a flood near at hand."

Weatherwatch: meteorologist moles 2011

Lanthadran park in Cornwall, which foreshows as much.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

They all fell to predicting the usual disasters — war, famine, and pestilence, — it being still an article of Moslem belief that the Dread Star foreshows all manner of calamities.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

He recommended Isaiah the prophet; and I believe it was because Isaiah foreshows more clearly than others the gospel, and the calling of the

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

-- This sign must be read in connection with other symbols; sometimes it foreshows grief and mourning, or if dots are round it, that a sum of money or a legacy may be expected from a widow.

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves Cicely Kent

-- The return of an absent friend after a long absence; if it is running, a journey is indicated; a dead hare foreshows money acquired through industry.

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves Cicely Kent

The substitution of the priest or preacher in the place of the husband or guardian, presupposes or foreshows a subversion more or less of the most essential relations of family life.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

-- An open box foreshows a troubled love affair; a closed box, that you will find something which you had lost.

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves Cicely Kent

-- This foreshows indisposition or a small illness, sometimes disturbed nights or emergencies.

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves Cicely Kent

-- This animal foreshows triumph over adverse circumstances or an evil report; two leopards, fortune and misfortune following each other in quick succession.

Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves Cicely Kent