She may have had a prevision of the need of support. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
These things have prevision-guided munitions on them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2001] Reference
He was invaded by a prevision of unendurable calamity. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference
The correctness of Mr. Gallatin's prevision was soon apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
It is now clear that his instinct was sure, his prevision acute. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914] Reference
Never enter into any discussion or prevision with a dinner invitation. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Of the course which physical science really followed he had no prevision. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
Sometimes I think that even his smallest acts were dictated by prevision. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
The times prevision, nearly in every local election, is usually the outcome. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's expose on JNC politics is better late than never] Reference
This divine prevision thus becomes the wisest and most beneficent provision. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
Perhaps each had some vague prevision of the communication he was about to make. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
The preceding incidents simply record a prevision of places subsequently visited. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
His comments mocking US lack of prevision were shown on Globovision a few days ago. From Wordnik.com. [08/28/2005 - 09/04/2005] Reference
Truly this would be to attribute a power of prevision to M. Lesseps beyond what is human. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
So the summer wore through, and at the end of it the queen's magical prevision was justified. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
The specific attribute by which it is distinguished from the latter is quantitative prevision. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The author interviewed 12 architects before he found one who understood his need for prevision. From Wordnik.com. [Crime Writer's Refuge] Reference
Though the utterance of one gifted with singularly clear prevision, the warning passed unheeded. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
The prevision of a coming disappointment was impressing itself on their minds as well as on mine. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
He has a prevision of what is to be expected that springs from character rather than from education. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
If she was biding her time or hoping to circumvent her father she must have had a prevision of success. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
Perhaps such scientific natures have some psychic prevision of the most tremendous problem of their lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Father Brown Omnibus]
That this act of prevision came none too soon was disclosed when the application of the fund was undertaken. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
It is a personal sense of achievement that one had the prevision, just like buying a share, whose price soars. From Wordnik.com. [Why to waste the vote?] Reference
This was no prevision of an emancipation proclamation; but it was assertion of the value of a higher "moral issue.". From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
Catholic monarchs had no prevision of the consequences, no idea of the legacy that they were leaving to their descendants. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference
She wrote because she must, and with very little prevision of the path which her genius was afterwards to mark out for her. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
The war may be long; difficulties may reach us of which we had no prevision at the start; but we shall keep on until the end. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
The birds pick up feathers, hair, twigs; but no bird provides such things by deliberate prevision and co-operation with nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers] Reference
How many an enthusiast has justified an extravagant purchase by a flattering prevision of profits accruing to his widow and orphans?. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
There were no less than ten females, endowed with the gift of prevision, and held in high repute, to whom the name of Sibyl was given. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
We came about the bend in the stream and, at sight of the city before us, were reminded of the keen prevision of its colonial founder. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
The presence of Mr. Bryan in the Cabinet and his well-known views on this question were strong reasons for watchful and careful prevision. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
He was visited with a fearful constraint, a chivalrous wish not to hurt her feelings, and a sharp prevision of the danger of offending her. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
Some curious prevision of evil seemed to trouble the mind of the good. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallen Leaves] Reference
In prevision of the up-coming 2010 FIFA World Cup (Can I just underline that I hate soccer?). From Wordnik.com. [Akihabara News] Reference
How much we suffer from sniffing the vain incense of that word practical, is contempt of prevision!. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
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