Example Sentences

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“The Foretelling is truth. A truth you will soon face. You seek to run. You seek to abandon your duty. But you cannot escape your destiny.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

"So you believed she was having a vision? Foretelling the future?"

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Raging then Berosty rem ir lpe returned to Charuthe, the third Domain of his family, a poor place in northern Osnoriner, which he had made poorer in getting together the price of a Foretelling.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Then Herbor set Odren’s hands against his own eyes in sign of gratitude, and so the Foretelling went forward.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

But I did not expect his answer: “The Weaver will refuse it. Unanswerable questions have wrecked Foretelling groups.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin