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  • It even seemed to my aggrieved feelings that his unprescient gaze on futurity, in which he could not anticipate the folly of one of his descendants, who should throw away the whole inheritance in a few years of idle expense and folly, was meant as a personal incivility to myself, though written fifty or sixty years before I was born.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • She returned indoors after a little, but Bayne still swung languidly to and fro, all unprescient of the impending disclosure.

    The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • Now, as all unprescient she watched the group, she thought again they were gone.

    The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • She hurried out with it at last, unprescient of any danger until all at once she saw the footprints of a man in the snow, otherwise untrodden, about the fodder-stack.

    His "Day In Court" 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • As, contrary to the vulgar notion, the bee is said to gather her honey unprescient of the winter, labouring without a motive, save the labour, I went on, year after year, hiving all that the earth presented to my toils, and asking not to what use.

    Eugene Aram — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • As, contrary to the vulgar notion, the bee is said to gather her honey unprescient of the winter, labouring without a motive, save the labour,

    Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Cigarettes are smoked at 35,000 feet; fashion editors - at least the ones who work for Vogue - are titled and stay in lavish hotel suites, while their models and photographers slum it in the attic the opposite is now the case, and everyone makes deliciously unprescient observations.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Lisa Armstrong 2012

  • Cigarettes are smoked at 35,000 feet; fashion editors - at least the ones who work for Vogue - are titled and stay in lavish hotel suites, while their models and photographers slum it in the attic the opposite is now the case, and everyone makes deliciously unprescient observations.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2012

  • And speaking of unprescient primaries, let's not forget that Obama's biggest selling point was that he wasn't as hated by the right wing as Clinton.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund myglesias 2010

  • Then he dug into his mid-1990’s newspaper archives, and gleefully quoted from a notably skeptical — and, as it turned out, unprescient — assessment of Fox News’ prospects.

    Murdoch To Times: I Will Bury You! Keller Bristles 2007

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