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"I'm glad it has no name," resumed Deerslayer, "or at least, no pale-face name; for their christenings always foretell waste and destruction.
– Je suis charmé qu’il n’ait pas de nom, reprit Deerslayer, ou du moins qu’il n’en ait pas un qui lui ait été donné par les Faces Pâles ; car leurs baptêmes de ce genre prédisent toujours dévastation et destruction.
Cooper, James Fenimore / The DeerslayerCooper, James Fenimore / Le tueur de daims
Le tueur de daims
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Deerslayer
Cooper, James Fenimore
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1995
Take any ten men with whom you are intimate, let them have been King of France, you can foretell the issue of their ten nights.
Mettez dix hommes que vous connaissez assez intimement dans la situation du roi de France, et vous prévoirez à coup sûr l'issue de leurs dix nuits.
Maeterlinck, Maurice / Wisdom and DestinyMaeterlinck, Maurice / La sagesse et la destinee
La sagesse et la destinee
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Wisdom and Destiny
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Was she endowed with second sight thus to foretell events?
Etait-elle douée de seconde vue pour ainsi pressentir les événements?
Balzac, Honore de / The Lily of the ValleyBalzac, Honore de / Le Lys dans la vallee
Le Lys dans la vallee
Balzac, Honore de
The Lily of the Valley
Balzac, Honore de
But who can foretell what road will be followed, through what disasters and sufferings one may have to go ?
Mais qui peut prévoir la route à parcourir, au travers de quels désastres, au milieu de quelles souffrances ?
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
Howsever, turn it does, as all my people say, and you ought to believe 'em, since they can foretell eclipses, and other prodigies, that used to fill the tribes with terror, according to your own traditions of such things."
Quoi qu’il en soit, elle tourne, comme le disent tous les blancs, et il faut bien les croire, puisqu’ils peuvent prédire les éclipses et d’autres prodiges qui jetaient la terreur dans toutes vos tribus, comme l’apprennent vos traditions.
Cooper, James Fenimore / The DeerslayerCooper, James Fenimore / Le tueur de daims
Le tueur de daims
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Deerslayer
Cooper, James Fenimore
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1995
Did not everything foretell approaching schism amidst that great movement of men's minds, weary of old mummified dogmas and yet hungering for the divine?
Est-ce qu’il ne semblait pas imminent, au milieu du prodigieux mouvement des esprits, las des vieux dogmes, affamés pourtant du divin ?
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Rome
Zola, Emile
The Bible might have foretold this dreadful punishment!"
La Bible aurait dû lui faire craindre ce châtiment terrible.
Cooper, James Fenimore / The DeerslayerCooper, James Fenimore / Le tueur de daims
Le tueur de daims
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Deerslayer
Cooper, James Fenimore
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1995
Deerslayer knew not whether to rejoice in or to mourn over this cautious delay, for, if it augured security to his associates, it foretold destruction to the feeble and innocent.
Il ne savait s’il devait se réjouir ou s’affliger de ce délai ; car si c’était un augure de sûreté pour eux, c’en était un de destruction pour des êtres faibles et innocents.
Cooper, James Fenimore / The DeerslayerCooper, James Fenimore / Le tueur de daims
Le tueur de daims
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Deerslayer
Cooper, James Fenimore
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1995
But who wants to be foretold the weather?
Mais à quoi bon ce besoin de prévoir le mauvais temps ?
Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka / Trois hommes dans le bateau
Trois hommes dans le bateau
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
This change to the law of tort is fraught with complexities and ramifications, the consequences of which cannot be precisely foretold.
Une telle mutation du droit de la responsabilité délictuelle comporte à la fois des difficultés et des ramifications, dont les conséquences ne peuvent être prévues avec exactitude.
Jasper had noted the omen, and had foretold that it announced a speedy termination to the gale, though the next hour or two must decide their fate.
Jasper remarqua ce changement, et prédit qu’il annonçait la fin prochaine de la tempête, quoiqu’une heure ou deux dussent décider du destin du cutter.
Cooper, James Fenimore / The Pathfinder, or, the Inland SeaCooper, James Fenimore / Le lac Ontario
Le lac Ontario
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Pathfinder, or, the Inland Sea
Cooper, James Fenimore
© State University of New York 1981
Sometimes I think all this sighing, and groaning, and stirring among the dry bones foretells what she used to tell me was coming.
Je me prends quelquefois à penser que tous ces soupirs, tous ces gémissements, tout ce fracas frémissant d’ossements desséchés, sont les avant-coureurs de ce qu’elle croyait proche.
Beecher Stowe, Harriet / Uncle Tom's CabinBeecher Stowe, Harriet / La case de l'oncle Tom
La case de l'oncle Tom
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
In his rare moments of content he felt proud of those few studies, the only ones which satisfied him, which, as it were, foretold a great painter, admirably gifted, but hampered by sudden and inexplicable fits of impotency.
Dans ses rares heures de contentement, il avait la fierté de ces quelques études, les seules dont il fût satisfait, celles qui annonçaient un grand peintre, doué admirablement, entravé par des impuissances soudaines et inexpliquées.
Zola, Emile / His MasterpieceZola, Emile / L'Oeuvre
L'Oeuvre
Zola, Emile
His Masterpiece
Zola, Emile
So accurate was her instinct that she detected the unfertile eggs in a sitting, and foretold the number of a litter of rabbits.
Cette certitude de l'instinct allait si loin, qu'elle flairait les oeufs vides d'une couvée, et qu'elle annonçait à l'avance le nombre des petits, dans une portée de lapins.
Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Zola, Emile
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
Zola, Emile
© BiblioBazaar, LLC
What prophet could have foretold that so many inconsistencies would come to pass?
Quel prophète aurait pu prédire une telle éclosion d'incohérentes choses?
Le Bon, Gustave / The Psychology of the Great WarLe Bon, Gustave / Enseignements psychologiques de la guerre européenne
Enseignements psychologiques de la guerre européenne
Le Bon, Gustave
© 1915, by Ernest Flammarion.
The Psychology of the Great War
Le Bon, Gustave
© 1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey

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foretell

verb
Basic forms
Pastforetold
Imperativeforetell
Present Participle (Participle I)foretelling
Past Participle (Participle II)foretold
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I foretellwe foretell
you foretellyou foretell
he/she/it foretellsthey foretell
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am foretellingwe are foretelling
you are foretellingyou are foretelling
he/she/it is foretellingthey are foretelling
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have foretoldwe have foretold
you have foretoldyou have foretold
he/she/it has foretoldthey have foretold
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been foretellingwe have been foretelling
you have been foretellingyou have been foretelling
he/she/it has been foretellingthey have been foretelling
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I foretoldwe foretold
you foretoldyou foretold
he/she/it foretoldthey foretold
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was foretellingwe were foretelling
you were foretellingyou were foretelling
he/she/it was foretellingthey were foretelling
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had foretoldwe had foretold
you had foretoldyou had foretold
he/she/it had foretoldthey had foretold
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been foretellingwe had been foretelling
you had been foretellingyou had been foretelling
he/she/it had been foretellingthey had been foretelling
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will foretellwe shall/will foretell
you will foretellyou will foretell
he/she/it will foretellthey will foretell
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be foretellingwe shall/will be foretelling
you will be foretellingyou will be foretelling
he/she/it will be foretellingthey will be foretelling
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have foretoldwe shall/will have foretold
you will have foretoldyou will have foretold
he/she/it will have foretoldthey will have foretold
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been foretellingwe shall/will have been foretelling
you will have been foretellingyou will have been foretelling
he/she/it will have been foretellingthey will have been foretelling
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would foretellwe should/would foretell
you would foretellyou would foretell
he/she/it would foretellthey would foretell
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be foretellingwe should/would be foretelling
you would be foretellingyou would be foretelling
he/she/it would be foretellingthey would be foretelling
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have foretoldwe should/would have foretold
you would have foretoldyou would have foretold
he/she/it would have foretoldthey would have foretold
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would have been foretellingwe should/would have been foretelling
you would have been foretellingyou would have been foretelling
he/she/it would have been foretellingthey would have been foretelling
Present Indefinite, Passive Voice
I am foretoldwe are foretold
you are foretoldyou are foretold
he/she/it is foretoldthey are foretold
Present Continuous, Passive Voice
I am being foretoldwe are being foretold
you are being foretoldyou are being foretold
he/she/it is being foretoldthey are being foretold
Present Perfect, Passive Voice
I have been foretoldwe have been foretold
you have been foretoldyou have been foretold
he/she/it has been foretoldthey have been foretold
Past Indefinite, Passive Voice
I was foretoldwe were foretold
you were foretoldyou were foretold
he/she/it was foretoldthey were foretold
Past Continuous, Passive Voice
I was being foretoldwe were being foretold
you were being foretoldyou were being foretold
he/she/it was being foretoldthey were being foretold
Past Perfect, Passive Voice
I had been foretoldwe had been foretold
you had been foretoldyou had been foretold
he/she/it had been foretoldthey had been foretold
Future Indefinite, Passive Voice
I shall/will be foretoldwe shall/will be foretold
you will be foretoldyou will be foretold
he/she/it will be foretoldthey will be foretold
Future Perfect, Passive Voice
I shall/will have been foretoldwe shall/will have been foretold
you will have been foretoldyou will have been foretold
he/she/it will have been foretoldthey will have been foretold