Life is the product of mind; it was intended, purposed, “previsioned.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
When the religious grannie says, “I previsioned this,” as she ignorantly gets carted away in the cab by the mafioso who do her in, a few moments later. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)
But, speaking of fictionality… so were stories re satellites; trips to the moon; lasers; and so many other damn things SF has previsioned… fictional, that is. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He rose with the words, as if he had too long forgotten her personality in the excitement of her previsioned career. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Quite as in some great racing-stable an ambitious horseman might imagine that he detected in some likely filly the signs and lineaments of the future winner of a Derby, so in Berenice Fleming, in the quiet precincts of the Brewster School, Cowperwood previsioned the central figure of a Newport lawn fete or a London drawing-room. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She previsioned a time when all her life before he came into it would have dropped out of remembrance as a tale that is told. ❋ Various (N/A)
She had previsioned many moments in which she should disclose her unique value to a dazzled world, but most of them had seemed, even to herself, extremely unlikely to arrive. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
Joffre and his associates of the council not only foresaw the war, but they quite clearly previsioned its extent and something of its character. ❋ Laughlin, Clara E (1918)
To this extent Dr. Surtaine had become a partisan of the new enterprise; that he, too, previsioned an ideal newspaper, a newspaper which, day by day, should uphold and defend the Best Interests of the Community, and, as an inevitable corollary, nourish itself on their bounty. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)
For now it was the Tyro who went to bed, miserable and at odds with a hostile world; whereas Little Miss Grouch dreamed of a morrow, new, glorious, and irradiated with a more splendid adventurousness than her slave had ever previsioned. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)
But it was a dead issue, and now with a new tensity of purpose he looked forward to the works which he previsioned in the nebulous and ardent future; no setback could turn him aside from the path which he had traced for himself. ❋ Albert Keim (1911)
So ill was Miss Elizabeth Barrett, early in the second half of the forties, that few friends, herself even, could venture to hope for a single one of those Springs which she previsioned so longingly. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
Like all who have been previsioned by suffering, she could, in the words of M. Sully-Prudhomme, hear a penal sentence in the fiat, 'You shall be born,' particularly if addressed to potential issue of hers. ❋ Unknown (1891)
Mayhap, adown those dim green aisles he previsioned the "ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir" with the tomb of Ulalume at the end of the ghostly path through the forest -- the road through life that led to the grave where his heart lay buried. ❋ La Salle Corbell Pickett (1889)
The completion of the boy's course at the public school, to be followed in due time by Oxford and ordination, had been all previsioned and arranged, and she really had nothing to occupy her in the world but to eat and drink, and make a business of indolence, and go on weaving and coiling the nut-brown hair, merely keeping a home open for the son whenever he came to her during vacations. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Like all who have been previsioned by suffering, she could, in the words of ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
He found that the whole edition of that sheet had been printed, and the air blackened round me again, lighted up here and there with baleful flashes of the newspaper wit at my cost, which I previsioned in my misery; I knew what I should have said of such a thing myself, if it had been another's. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
[My Mum] said i had to [revise] but i couldnt be bothered so i decided to previse
I had to previse before my test because i was having a great [convosation] on Msn and didnt have time to work
I had to previse with my french book in front of me so it looked like i was doing something ❋ Ali Letham (2008)
1.The night before her maths GCSE Bethany was astounded to find that the Factor Theorem was part of the syllabus. As she was unaware such a Theorem even existed she filled twelve sleepless hours with frantic [prevision], which culminated in her sending an abusive email to her maths teacher.
2. Martin: Surely you knew the [Baddeley] and [Godden] study would be in the exam?
Beth: If I had I would have prevised it, fool! ❋ Lingopunk (2010)
"How's [studying] going?" "I've just [completed] three days of [prevision]" ❋ MerchLo (2012)
"Hey, [wanna go] on [world of Warcraft] [with me]?"
"Nah, I've gotta previse" ❋ Rubikscube606 (2011)
