I am the celestial Spirit to whom eternal futurity is known. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from _The Last Man_] Reference
As for futurity, that is a sealed book which no man hitherto has been able to open. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Distance of place always supposes the existence of the things that so differ: futurity, which is. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
On the third point: hope implies a defect, namely the futurity of blessedness, which will cease when blessedness is present. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
I thought the way in which she brought in the word "futurity" almost sublime. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
They apply, properly, outside time - to a "futurity" that is not of this world. From Wordnik.com. [Celestial Junk] Reference
Mrs. Makebelieve sat contemplating that futurity which is nothing more than a prolongation of experience she could smile contentedly, for all was very well. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary] Reference
Thus he might be said to see forty minutes into futurity. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
Ornithomancy was a popular way of searching into futurity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Divine grace which had saved him for the edification of all futurity. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
Society, as at present constituted, acts as if there were no futurity. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
Millions of years would certainly be enough to constitute a "distant futurity.". From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference
Drawing of lots was frequently resorted to by the Romans wishing to pry into futurity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
If the true poet be the seer -- the far seer into futurity -- he should see his way clear before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
When the scene shut in, I was glad to think, that for me the whole burst of Niagara was yet in futurity. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Omens of futurity were also drawn from the appearance of the entrails of animals offered in sacrifice to the gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity?. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
(Fulvia) who tells fortunes and reads futurity, and reads it correctly, let philosophy or common sense say what it will. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Unmarried men and women are accustomed to meet at the house of a friend, to spend this evening in searching into futurity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
The moment is pregnant with futurity, and if not seized at once by Congress, I know not on what shoal our bark is next to be stranded. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The wish to look into futurity is vain, irrational, almost impious; but what a service would it be to any man if he could but get a sight into. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Darwin says, "Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.". From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880] Reference
The desire to penetrate the dark veil of futurity, and thereby to avert, if possible, threatened danger, has animated mankind in all ages of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Not only did the sacred liquor, properly applied, enable one to see into futurity, but it was supposed to confer immortality on those who bathed in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
The book contains a valuable array of the best thoughts, impressions, and beliefs of the most distinguished minds on the phenomena of life, death, and futurity. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The poets of science, in their analogies, are "the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.". From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Thus he dared to boast that these divinities, by whom he had sworn falsely in the day, had descended to hold communication with him in the night, and to inform him of futurity. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
To undertake the performance of a ceremony of such importance, under these circumstances, would only be mocking Providence, and preparing for ourselves a futurity of misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
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