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Definition of Foreshadowers
1. foreshadower [n] - See also: foreshadower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreshadowers
Literary usage of Foreshadowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Children's Books and Reading by William Finch Allen, Montrose Jonas Moses (1907)
"... but still forming a part of the past history—foreshadowers of the new era.
For therein you will discover that juvenile literature first begins to show ..."
2. The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of Its History from the Earliest by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1904)
"... Nash and Sir Philip Sidney claim places by the side of Lyly as innovators in
the art of prose fiction, and foreshadowers of later schools of romancers. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1860)
"... i)ivine spectacle an “occasion for converting ourselves into “His likenesses,
as once the saints of “the Old Testament wero His fitting “foreshadowers. ..."
4. Wycliffe and the Lollards by John Charles Carrick (1908)
"... this divine spectacle an occasion for converting ourselves into His likeness,
as once the saints of the Old Testament were His fitting foreshadowers. ..."
5. The Student's Lyell: A Manual of Elementary Geology by Charles Lyell, John Wesley Judd (1896)
"241), the foreshadowers of the existing fauna. In Queensland, these Pliocene
flows cap a ' desert sandstone,' and in Victoria, gravels, conglomerates, ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity by William Jones Seabury (1894)
"... pertaining to which offices pertain also to the office of the Anointed One,
of whom those formerly anointed had been but the types and foreshadowers. ..."
7. St. Thomas's Hospital Gazette by England St. Thomas's Hospital (London, St. Thomas's Hospital (London, England). (1898)
"... or one of the foreshadowers of a certain limited liability company which
triumphed and fell a few years ago. ..."
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