foreglimpse

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I have a dim foreglimpse of it, and if we have luck, we'll know more before long. "

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  1. A glimpse or revelation of the future. Had I had a foreglimpse of what was to be. Christian Union, April 7, 1887.

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  • I have a dim foreglimpse of it, and if we have luck, we'll know more before long. " —  A Columbus of Space
  • Breathing hard with excitement he turned and laid his back against the panels, trembling in every muscle, terrified by the result of his impulsive audacity, thunder-struck by a lightning-like foreglimpse of its possible consequences. —  The Black Bag
  • But it annoyed him to find that his own explanations were always falsified by the event, while Cosmo Versál seemed to have a superhuman foreglimpse of whatever happened. —  The Second Deluge
 

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