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The result will be that the nation will be cut up into many parts beyond all hope of remedy. That this state of affairs will come is not difficult to foresee.
She could foresee just the expression of his face when he would speak, could forecast just the tones of the voice, the twinkle of the kindly eyes behind the glasses. When she entered the study, she found Trevor himself, as she had expected, waiting for her in slippers and worn velvet jacket, pipe in hand, and silk skullcap awry upon the silver-white hair.
It goes dry every summer." This was not pleasing to foresee, and Yan said, "Why can't we make a dam?" "A little too much like work." "Oh, pshaw! That'd be fun and we'd have a swimming-place for all summer, then. Come on; let's start now." "Never heard of Injuns doing so much work." "Well, we'll play Beaver while we do it.
It was for his interest, they had imagined, that no lease granted by any of his predecessors should hinder him from enjoying, during a long term of years, the full value of his land. Avarice and injustice are always short-sighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt, in the long-run, the real interest of the landlord.
Could I foresee that a day might come when I, Jacques de Boiscoran, should have to denounce the Countess Claudieuse, and should be compelled to look for evidence and witnesses against her?" The eminent advocate of Sauveterre looked aside; and, instead of replying, he said in a somewhat changed voice, "Go on, Jacques, go on!"
It is no wonder he "did not like reviewing at all," especially as he "never could understand why reviews were instituted; works of merit do not require to be reviewed, they can speak for themselves, and require no praising; works of no merit at all will die of themselves, they require no killing." He forgot "The Dairyman's Daughter," and he could not foresee the early fate of "Lavengro" itself.
He could not, however, but foresee, that if he resisted the boy's wishes, he was likely to have a troublesome time of it. Scrape after scrape, difficulty following difficulty, might ensue, all costing both anxiety and money.
Although I did not then foresee it, the guests that evening were destined to point me to many meanings, like sketches in the note-book of a patient Pen.
Cicero was probably the most sagacious politician in Rome; and he, though he did understand much of the weakness and, it should be added, of the greed of his own party, did not foresee the point which Cæsar was destined to reach, and which was now probably fixed before Cæsar's own eyes. But I cannot agree with Mr.
He took my arm and waited to repeat the lesson until we had left the house; "Always distrust a man's last wishes on his death-bed unless they are communicated to his lawyer, and expressed in his will." At the time, I thought this rather a narrow view to take. How could I foresee that coming events in the future life of my aunt would prove the lawyer to be right?
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