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"Foresaw everything, uncle, down to shamming an attempt upon his life so as to avert suspicion, down to shamming a wound received in your service."

From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

Index: WM Foresaw danger from British colonies, 21.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

When I had Forecast these easy possibilities, I yet Foresaw one thing that crossed our designs— That was a sense of honour I had in me.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

Foresaw a plague, and stopped it after it had commenced.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

This cleaving of the earth his eye Foresaw in ages long gone by: He knew with prescient soul the fate That Sagar's children should await.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)