my future

• “For example, she was prompted to give me a Salvador Dali painting, Meditative Rose, which led to a series of rose synchronicities ending five days later when I met my future wife, Rhonda, the Greek origin of whose name means rose.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Sacred Promise

• “My parents met over a bridge game, under the rain of Allied bombs, at the home of my future godfather, Bela Hallosy.”

  Simon & Schuster: Enemies of the People

• “Neither as yet could I attain to any comfortable persuasion that I had faith in Christ; but instead of having satisfaction here, I began to find my soul to be assaulted with fresh doubts about my future happiness; especially with such as these, WHETHER I WAS ELECTED?”

  Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

• ““I got your back,” Cheryl Smith, my future fiancée, said after my return, then turned her words to action by splitting her salary into two as I continued searching for work.”

  Simon & Schuster: One Season

• “I believed my future would be spent in apartments on the Upper East Side or in Greenwich Village, where, my hands shoved into the pockets of a tweed sports coat, I would find myself asking a waiflike brunet why she was leaving me or coming back to me, or if she had ever loved me at all.”

  Simon & Schuster: Life As We Know It

• “His log-book did indeed indicate that he desired “to acquire a knowledge of the winds and weather periodically encountered at Ile-de-France, of the actual state of the French colony, and of what utility it and its dependencies in Madagascar might be to Port Jackson, and whether that island could afford resources to myself in my future voyages.””

  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

• “I consider that when a dependant does her duty as well as you have done yours, she has a sort of claim upon her employer for any little assistance he can conveniently render her; indeed I have already, through my future mother-in-law, heard of a place that I think will suit: it is to undertake the education of the five daughters of Mrs. Dionysius O'Gall of Bitternutt Lodge, Connaught, Ireland.”

  Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.

• “I returned to my home in Elberton, and began my future work.”

  From Slavery to the Bishopric in the AME Church An Autobiography

• “He bade me attach myself to his son, the Abbe Gauvon, who had an esteem for me, which, if I took care to cultivate, might be serviceable in furnishing me with what was necessary to complete their views for my future establishment.”

  The Confessions of J J Rousseau

• “I was quite beside myself with joy, capered about in the most enthusiastic manner, and was going to hug in turn the soap, the grease, and the man, had I not remembered my future ambassadress-ship, and reflected that it would not sound well in history.”

  Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

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