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He sought to forecast the happenings of the next few hours. Murrell's friends would break jail for him, that was a foregone conclusion, but the insurrection he had planned was at an end. Hues had dealt its death blow.
In the red gleam from the hearth she saw him go into the kitchen, closing the door softly. After that there was no sound but the swirl of the storm brushing at her window. In line with Roaring Bill's forecast, the weather cleared for a brief span, and then winter shut down in earnest.
We all know what a forecast of evil is a secret fear that evil is coming upon us. It lays hold of our heart, or of our conscience, as the case may be, and will not let go its hold. And then the heart and the conscience run out continually and lay hold of the future evil and carry it home to our terrified bosoms. We apprehend the coming evil, and feel it long before it comes.
On the other hand he is often artificial, extravagant, and turgid, and his ultimate literary position is difficult to forecast. Lives by Froude , Hitchman , see also Dictionary of Nat. Biog. etc. Poet and philosophical writer, s. of a shopkeeper and small farmer at Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and ed. at Aberdeen; he was, in 1760, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy there.
"As if you hadn't read everything that the Dawn and the other morning papers have to say about the ball hours ago." "The naked truth should be avoided in a Turkish bath," said Cornelian; "kindly assume that I've only had time to glance at the weather forecast and the news from China." "Oh, very well," said the other; "your costume isn't described; you simply come amid a host of others as 'Mr.
Had Jane been anywhere else save in the home that Virginia might have had, her future might have had another story. But why forecast the might-have-been? "You do use your property well, I am sure," Doctor Carey said, replying to the last words spoken between them, "and yet, you would give it up?" He knew her answer, or he would not have asked the question.
She loved her mother, but her affection was cold in comparison with the ardent passion she felt for him that vague, instinctive preference girls feel for their fathers and which is, as it were, a forecast of the worship the man they love will later inspire in them. For a moment he thought of looking for Josephina to console her, but after a brief reflection, he gave up the idea.
When President Wilson assumed office March 4, 1913, there was nothing but the Huerta revolution, the full significance of which was not then appreciated, to suggest to his mind the forecast that before the close of his term questions of foreign policy would absorb the attention of the American people and tax to the limit his own powers of mind and body.
A stronger commendation of a piece of literary work than he gave it would be hard to conceive. He had been moved by it to the depths and his forecast for its author was a fame of the brightest. It was then I first heard of Walt Whitman. Soon after the world heard much of him and it still hears much of him.
"I might have sung like that once," he thought, for he had been choir-boy in his ragamuffin youth, and had regained a fine tenor voice at eighteen. Age and neglect had ruined it, however. For ten years he had not attempted to sing a note. This youth made him dream of the past as it caused Bertha to forecast the future.
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