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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of foreguess.

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  • Roly-Poly, and the suicide of Jennka which followed the next day, she, with her unconsciously -- penetrating soul foreguessed that fate -- which had been favouring her house of ill-fame, sending her good fortunes, turning away all under-water shoals -- was now getting ready to turn its back upon her.

    Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

  • "This, then, was thy secret, Anne," whispered the countess; "and I half foreguessed it, when, last night, I knelt beside thy couch to pray, and overheard thee murmur in thy dreams."

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "This, then, was thy secret, Anne," whispered the countess; "and I half foreguessed it, when, last night, I knelt beside thy couch to pray, and overheard thee murmur in thy dreams."

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I received a letter last evening from the Duke of Gloucester, and as I know the love borne by the prince to the Lord Hastings, I inquired of your chamberlain how far he would have foreguessed the news it announced. "

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I received a letter last evening from the Duke of Gloucester, and as I know the love borne by the prince to the Lord Hastings, I inquired of your chamberlain how far he would have foreguessed the news it announced. "

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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