“For the best! What is that to do with us? Centaurs are concerned with what has been foretold! It is not our business to run around like donkeys after stray humans in our forest! ”
While forecasters lack the technology to foretell the next pefect storm, they do know that one would be more likely to hit at the peek of the Sun's eleven-year sunspot cycle.
To those who knew how to read them, so it was belief exhibits of shell and bone could foretell the future, tell you when to sacrifice, when to harvest, when illness would strike.
In his five years as prime minister, Mr Modi has been neither as good for India as his cheerleaders foretold, nor as bad as his critics, including this newspaper, imagined.
Today's word was submitted by Kendall Hoffman in Mr. Lucio's class at Lincolnview High School in Van Wert, Ohio, prognosticator, a noun for a person who foretells or prophecies a future event.
My prophetic soul foretold a visit that afternoon from Miss Pole, who usually came to call on Miss Matilda after any event-or indeed in sight of any event-to talk it over with her.