in futuro
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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This was the first wave of the daily townward tide—clerks, shop-girls, and stenographers, for the most part intent upon bread and butter in futuro.
From The Paternoster Ruby by Walk, Charles Edmonds
I have already passed the Pons Asinorum, and will desist, remembering the old pedantic pun of Jem Boyer, my schoolmaster:— "Ass in præsenti seldom makes a wise man in futuro."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
Or the youngsters may still be in futuro.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
Am I the sort of fellow to persuade a man to invest in some visionary company with dividends in futuro?
From The Mynns' Mystery by Fenn, George Manville
He had gold to lay by, and gold to spend, Gold to give, and gold to lend, And reversions of gold in futuro.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
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