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    foretaste


    1. If you are a student of the Word, you will also know that Paul has said that this Spirit that we received is only a foretaste of the true fulfillment of that verse


    2. Is this a foretaste of what we have to come, I wonder, somehow I have to protect Alastair


    3. Now that he owns me, the backhand to my jaw and the six strokes with his staff were only a foretaste of my life here in this The Maiden’s Odyssey


    4. Humankind is one with the Supreme Being whose inner-presence is a foretaste of His glorious designs that bear witness of Him, (yet) which is not Him, however suggestive of Him, (yet) unites us closer with Him, fashioned as each of us are in His own manner


    5. The celebration afterwards was a foretaste of the good times to come


    6. He can also be considered as a foretaste of what will happen when Jesus comes


    7. A long moment of uncertainty, the foretaste of failure, and then the child took a harsh breath


    8. pledge and foretaste of a new creation within its time and place, engaging with the


    9. interrupted? Is it now that we have “the inexpressible sighs,” the exclamation of “Abba, Father!” the vision, the divine visitation, the cessation of work on the seventh day, the foretaste of the graces of the future age? It is here indeed that human flesh ceases to speak; it is here that we have absolutely calm weather; it is here that


    10. sojourners to transcend current conditions through prayer, and to enjoy a foretaste of eternity

    11. And to let her father have a foretaste of future transgression, the inspector put him in the lock-up for that night for trespass


    12. Only the spirit-indwelt man can realize the divine presence and seek to attain a fuller experience in and with this foretaste of divinity


    13. Your fear is a foretaste of Hell


    14. The bloody assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa provided a bitter foretaste of what the Allies could expect when invading Japan


    15. ‘’You are one incredibly tough girl, I will give you that, but this is only a foretaste


    16. We can experience a foretaste of both heaven


    17. Consider this as a foretaste of what you can expect as a future ship captain


    18. Sabbaths are a foretaste and fragment of heaven


    19. “And a foretaste of the future,” Kifter said from behind, strolling forward whilst eating a


    20. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space

    21. Little they cared what anybody thought, for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven


    22. He speaks in a very interesting manner of the beauty and utility of nature and of the human frame, which he conceives to afford a foretaste of the heavenly state and of the resurrection of the body


    23. What these happy persons took for reality was but a dream; but it was a dream so soft, so voluptuous, so enthralling, that they sold themselves body and soul to him who gave it to them, and obedient to his orders as to those of a deity, struck down the designated victim, died in torture without a murmur, believing that the death they underwent was but a quick transition to that life of delights of which the holy herb, now before you had given them a slight foretaste


    24. But he knew not that the eye and hand were mine! With the superstition common to his brotherhood, he fancied himself given over to a fiend, to be tortured with frightful dreams, and desperate thoughts, the sting of remorse, and despair of pardon; as a foretaste of what awaits him beyond the grave


    25. But, to return from this digression; saving and excepting the remarks of Mr Dribbles and Mr Dippings, and neither of them could be considered as made in a sincere frame of mind, I had no foretaste of any opposition


    26. In this way Mr Fegs got a foretaste of what had been concerted for his advantage; and Mr Peevie, in the mean time, through his helpmate, had, in like manner, not been idle; the effect of all which was, that next day, every where in the town, people spoke of Mr Hodden and Mr Fegs as being ordained to be the new councillors, in the stead of the two who had, as it was said, resigned in so unaccountable a manner, so that no candidates offered, and the election was concluded in the most candid and agreeable spirit possible; after which I had neither trouble nor adversary, but went on, in my own prudent way, with the works in hand—the completion of the new bridge, the reparation of the tolbooth steeple, and the bigging of the new schools on the piece of ground adjoining to my own at the Westergate; and in the doing of the latter job I had an opportunity of manifesting my public spirit; for when the scheme, as I have related, was some years before given


    27. Bishop Wylbyr was right about that, and Father Kuhnymychu couldn’t argue with the logic of the Inquisitor General’s conviction that anything which happened to a heretic in this life was but a foretaste of what awaited him in eternity


    28. In this foretaste of eternal peace they floated vivid and light, like unearthly clear dreams of earthly things that may haunt the souls freed by death from the misty atmosphere of regrets and hopes


    29. He had not had much foretaste of happiness in his previous life


    30. Bambridge was bent on buying, and he appeared to like looking inside it frequently, as a foretaste of its possession

    31. And all the while there was no more foretaste of enjoyment in the life before him than if his limbs had been lopped off and he was making his fresh start on crutches


    32. It is remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine happiness and a real recreation for the scholars


    33. For that will be the tone after marriage, it’s a foretaste of it


    34. brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity ‘on a square yard of space


    35. They looked forward to that moment with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another


    36. If, loving a woman above everything in the world, or at least having a foretaste of the possibility of such love for her, one were suddenly to behold her on a chain, behind bars and under the lash of a keeper, one would feel something like what the poor prince now felt


    37. I felt more at ease and breathed more freely, but my whole soul was full of a dumb, sweet yearning, as though a veil had been drawn from my eyes as though at a foretaste of something


    38. But then what happiness when you attain it! There is an exquisite sweetness in this love, even in the foretaste of it


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    "foretaste" definitions

    an early limited awareness of something yet to occur