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Their fervour was cooling, but the prophecy would still be fulfilled. The builders are the same as the vine-dressers; their rejection of the stone is parallel with slaying the Son. But though Jesus foretells His death, He also foretells His triumph after death.
"Well, you see, ma'am, 'tis girl's work entoirely you want him to do. And Pat's been put on and made fun of almost more than he can bear since we moved to Wennott. Sure and them b'ys I'd call 'em imps, only they're big for imps, bein' bigger and stouter than Pat himsilf they sets on him and foretells when his arms is goin' to burst through his sleeves and such as that, loike an almanac, ma'am.
We care very little for any old teachings which are not verified by celestial phenomena. We saw the prophecy fulfilled. That was enough." "What about the star? Is it something which will not last?" "No. It is a star which will last as long as any, but one which is visible on earth only at intervals of long ages. Then it foretells a great event. It appeared last just before the birth of Moses."
For it is the cry of one possessed and consumed in every fiber of his being by that single consciousness. It is as though Moussorgsky, the great, chivalric Russian, the great, sinewy giant with blood aflame for gorgeousness and bravery and bells and games and chants, had been all his days the Prince in "Khovanchtchina" to whom the sorceress foretells: "Disgrace and exile await thee.
Tragedy and comedy belong alike to low civilizations, to wicked, brutal, or ridiculous types of character and disorderly events, to the confusion, ignorance, and ignominies of mankind; the refinement of both is a mark of progress in both art and civilization, and foretells their own extinction, unless indeed the principle of evil be more deeply implanted in the universe than we fondly hope; pathos and humour, which are the milder and the kindlier forms of tragedy and comedy, must also cease, for both are equally near to tears.
In Russia the wife's name is always a little different from that of her husband, owing to the fact that the family name when borne by a male is a substantive and can be used alone, while in a lady's case it is only an adjective which requires completion to give it full meaning. In Sweden a rainy day is considered lucky for a marriage, as it foretells wealth.
One of our scientists foretells the time when, by the higher mathematics, it will be possible to compute how many brain cells must be torn down to earn a given sum of money; how much vital force each Sir William Jones must give in exchange for one of his forty languages and dialects; what percentage of the original vital force will be consumed in experiencing each new pleasure, or surmounting each new pain; how much nerve treasure it takes to conquer each temptation or endure each self-sacrifice.
The sun looks ugly, too. That murky red face foretells a row of some kind." "I hope that we shall get the Youth safe at her moorings before night comes, or a storm either shall we not?" asked Harry. "We'll hope so," answered Captain Mugford, who pulled out his pipe and filled it hard, continuing, "Who'll hand me out a light from the cuddy?"
They had been struggling in the Downs all day with two or three reefs, and in the 'smokers' with 'yardarm taken, but in the afternoon the mercury in the barometers began to jump up and First rise after low Foretells a stronger blow.
Flesh-eating, yellow-legged vultures! friends of the oppressors of our land! dogs who are not ashamed to eat from the same trough with the Bellati!" "It seems to me that your prophetess only foretells the past," said Mr. Y , philosophically putting his hands in his pockets. "I should say that she is hinting at you, my dear Sham Rao."
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