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Updated: May 8, 2025
But "fore-warned is fore-armed"; moreover, there was this man Harry clearly disposed to be friendly to us, or why should he take the risk of acquainting me with this terrible news?
"I am glad I heard it," said Burton, "for never was it more true than in my case that to be fore-warned is to be fore-armed. Two traps have been already laid this morning to get me away from the Salt Range, and I believe here is another," he said, as a coolie came at the trot with a telegram in his hand. "Come at once. Most serious. Mirkwort," read out Burton, as soon as the coolie had retired.
At any moment we might hear the steps and voices of the returning pirates. Thus fore-warned, we might of course retreat into the woods and let them pass, ourselves unseen. But then, what of those whom we had left in camp? Could we leave them undefended to the vengeance of Captain Magnus?
Besides, remember old Ralph's proverb, 'Fore-warned is fore-armed. Think you not that Gaston, and honest Ingram, and I may not be a match for a dozen cowardly traitors? Besides which, see here the gold allotted me to raise more men, with which I will obtain some honest hearts for my defence and it will go hard with me if I cannot find Sir Renaud's secret door."
And so, fore-warned, the Scarlet Car crawled up the main street of Rye as demurely as a baby-carriage, and then, having safely reached a point directly in front of the police station, with a loud and ostentatious report, blew up another tire. "Well," said Sam crossly, "they can't arrest US for speeding." "Whatever happens," said his sister, "take it as a joke."
For the next three weeks you won't have anything to do except prepare for the battle, and I can teach you a lot of good stuff in three weeks. To be fore-warned is to be fore-armed, Matt, and if Cappy has sent a Holy Terror to clean you, give him a regular fight, even if he licks you." Matt Peasley nodded. He entertained a profound respect for Mr. Murphy's judgment.
The flacker of wild-fowl overhead, the skim of ice forming on the lake, the poignant sting of the north wind all fore-warned winter's approach. Jean de la Vérendrye had not come up with the supplies from Michilimackinac. The explorer did not tempt mutiny by going farther.
He said as much to Don Quixote, but the Knight answered: "Sir, I cannot tell when, or where, or in what shape, my enemies will attack me. It is always wise to be ready. Fore-warned is fore-armed. Give me my helmet, Sancho!" Snatching it out of Sancho's unwilling hands, he clapped it on his head without looking into it. "What is this, Sancho?" he cried, as the whey ran down his face.
He suggested that they should tether a shorn lamb there. A witty Bostonian going to dine with a lady was met by her with a face of apology. "I could not get another man," she said; "and we are four women, and you will have to take us all in to dinner." "Fore-warned is four-armed," said he with a bow. This gentleman was in a hotel in Boston when the law forbidding the sale of liquor was in force.
And," she continued, after a barely perceptible pause, "have no anxiety on my account; O'Gorman and his accomplices will not molest me if you will but conform to their wishes. And, if they should, I shall be prepared for them: `Fore-warned is fore-armed'!"
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