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  • Exactly one week later, Gallagher's if they caught you would turn out to be all too prescient.†   (source)
  • But at the same time, there is a wealth of anecdote handed down over the years, and from this I've borrowed heavily: the role of flea-ridden cloth as the possible plague vector; the greedy grave digger who buried a man alive; the prescient cockerel who knew when it was safe to come home.†   (source)
  • With the jacket casually slung over his shoulder, he was almost too handsome for his own good, which only made what her mother had said even more prescient.†   (source)
  • Political insiders knew him to be a shrewd negotiator and a prescient political mind.†   (source)
  • He had an uncanny prescience, as if he lived twenty seconds ahead of himself, seeing the coming trap along the rail or the route to the outside.†   (source)
  • Jorge's letter arrived that morning, as if his prescience extended even to the irregular postal service between the United States and Cuba.†   (source)
  • But it was their presence as well as their prescience that made for whatever progress we have made.†   (source)
  • Some small part of me probably fathomed what he intended, and yet I simply watched the scene like a disinterested spectator, whose instant glint of prescience is somehow self-fulfilling.†   (source)
  • She had always had the makings of a legend in her: the prodigious strength, the fearlessness, the religious ardor, the visions she had in which she experienced moments of prescience.†   (source)
  • Therefore, although Nathan's remark was doubly infuriating at the time, piling, as I thought, imbecility on plain viciousness, I realize now how weirdly prescient it really was, how typical it was of that erratic, daft, tormented, but keenly honed and magisterial intelligence I was to get to know and find myself too often pitted against.†   (source)
  • One by one, million by million, in the prescience of dawn, every leaf in that part of the world was moved.†   (source)
  • He looked in prescience with a longing of love over the throng that waited while the flames of the torches threw change, change, change over their faces.†   (source)
  • She is prescient in her political predictions.
  • The prescient knowledge of the time-boiling variables in this cave came back to plague him now.†   (source)
  • The bits of his prescient memory were not quite as he remembered them.†   (source)
  • They were out of the storm, but still not out into the full view of his prescient vision.†   (source)
  • It occurred to Jessica then to wonder about the limits of Paul's prescience.†   (source)
  • I trust Sukeena so much in these matters-she has a prescience for anticipating the unexpected.†   (source)
  • "My visitor was a prescient I had known when I was a student here," she continued.†   (source)
  • I know very little of prescience, but Varga's been right more often than not.†   (source)
  • We're hoping he might be able to use his prescience to foresee its full capabilities.†   (source)
  • Despite their many meetings, the prescient's eye still managed to give Max a jolt.†   (source)
  • The prescient eye was going dark, its milky whites fading to dead gray.†   (source)
  • She is prescient and clairvoyant and somehow divines the thoughts of others.†   (source)
  • You might call it the prescient community or the prophetic community.†   (source)
  • Later, he would remember other sights that he didn't have time to register right away: the heating duct covers that had been pried loose so that students could hide in the crawl space; the shoes left behind by kids who literally ran out of them; the eerie prescience of crime-scene outlines on the floor outside the biology classrooms, where students had been tracing their own bodies on butcher paper for an assignment.†   (source)
  • This could only mean they saw a nexus, a meeting place of countless delicate decisions, beyond which the path was hidden from the prescient eye.†   (source)
  • They were breeding for a super-Mentat, a human computer with some of the prescient abilities found in Guild navigators.†   (source)
  • "We must walk without rhythm," Paul said and he called up memory of men walking the sand ....both prescient memory and real memory.†   (source)
  • He said it had something to do with his prescient faculty, but he has been strangely silent about what he sees.†   (source)
  • He was known to have had prescient visions that were accurate, penetrating, and defied four-dimensional explanation.†   (source)
  • He joined her in the ornithopter, still wrestling with the thought that this was blind ground, unseen in any prescient vision.†   (source)
  • Jessica nodded to herself, remembering her son's ambivalent feelings toward the spice drug and the prescient awareness it precipitated.†   (source)
  • And he paused, shaken by the remembered high relief imagery of a prescient vision he had experienced on Caladan.†   (source)
  • But Paul still felt the nexus-boiling of this cave, still remembered the prescient visions of himself dead under a knife.†   (source)
  • His body had slowly acquired a certain spice tolerance that made prescient visions fewer and fewer ....dimmer and dimmer.†   (source)
  • No prescient dream, no experience of his life had quite prepared him for the totality with which the veils had been ripped away to reveal naked time.†   (source)
  • Paul studied the open desert, questing in his prescient memory, probing the mysterious allusions to thumpers and maker hooks in the Fremkit manual that had come with their escape pack.†   (source)
  • He sensed the feeling of humor around him, something bantering in it, and his mind linked up a prescient memory: watercounters offered to a woman—courtship ritual.†   (source)
  • It was a kind of visual fatigue and it came, he knew, from the constant necessity of holding the prescient future as a kind of memory that was in itself a thing intrinsically of the past.†   (source)
  • Bits and pieces of this moment registered on his prescient memory, but he felt the differences as though they were physical, a pressure forcing him through the narrow door of the present.†   (source)
  • And he realized with an abrupt sense of shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.†   (source)
  • He knew he had seen this place before, experienced it in a fragment of prescient dream on faraway Caladan, but details of the place were being filled in now that he had not seen.†   (source)
  • Without even the safety valve of dreaming, he focused his prescient awareness, seeing it as a computation of most probable futures, but with something more, an edge of mystery—as though his mind dipped into some timeless stratum and sampled the winds of the future.†   (source)
  • Paul thought then of prescient glimpses into the possibilities of this moment — and one time-line where Thufir carried a poisoned needle which the Emperor commanded he use against "this upstart Duke."†   (source)
  • It had been a strange day with these two standing guard over him because he asked it, keeping away the curious, allowing him the time to nurse his thoughts and prescient memories, to plan a way to prevent the jihad.†   (source)
  • And the thought was a shock crashing across his consciousness because he had seen the Emperor in uncounted associations spread through the possible futures—but never once had Count Fenring appeared within those prescient visions.†   (source)
  • He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.†   (source)
  • =========================== Prophecy and prescience—How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered questions?†   (source)
  • The familiarity of that face, the features out of numberless visions in his earliest prescience, shocked Paul to stillness.†   (source)
  • Paul, aware of some of this from the way the time nexus boiled, understood at last why he had never seen Fenring along the webs of prescience.†   (source)
  • The prescience, he realized, was an illumination that incorporated the limits of what it revealed—at once a source of accuracy and meaningful error.†   (source)
  • Accepting the words, Chani was touched by some of the prescience that haunted Paul, and she knew a thing-yet-to-be as though it already had occurred.†   (source)
  • The more he resisted his terrible purpose and fought against the coming of the jihad, the greater the turmoil that wove through his prescience.†   (source)
  • It gave him a new understanding of his prescience, and he saw the source of blind time, the source of error in it, with an immediate sensation of fear.†   (source)
  • He felt himself touched briefly by his powers of prescience, seeing himself infected by the wild race consciousness that was moving the human universe toward chaos.†   (source)
  • Prescience had fed his knowledge with countless experiences, hinted at the strongest currents of the future and the strings of decision that guided them, but this was the real-now.†   (source)
  • Paul caught himself in a stumble, sensing an arrested instant of time, remembering a fragment, a visual projection of prescience—but it was displaced, like a montage in motion.†   (source)
  • As I look back on it, I think there may have been some prescience in my father, too, for it is certain that his line and Muad'Dib's shared common ancestry.†   (source)
  • The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.†   (source)
  • The Guild hinted that its navigators, who use the spice drug of Arrakis to produce the limited prescience necessary for guiding spaceships through the void, were "bothered about the future" or saw "problems on the horizon."†   (source)
  • One paper, the New York Express, went on to pose a most prescient question: "How long will it be now before a Southern gentleman traveling with his servants is immediately sued by his property as soon as they cross over into a Northern state where slavery has been abolished?"†   (source)
  • No one lingered long under the eye's prescient gaze, and it, combined with the man's lurching gait and notoriety, made him a popular subject for rumor and gossip.†   (source)
  • He was thinner than when Max had last seen him, but his prescient eye still stared white and ghostly within its dark, lidded socket.†   (source)
  • Agent Varga had once protected Max and saved his life, but his prescience played a role in the disappearance and untimely death of Max's mother.†   (source)
  • Peter brushed past him and hobbled down the hallway, trailing a wake of silence as visitors caught their very first glimpse of Rowan's, remaining prescient and his ghastly eye.†   (source)
  • I understood this not because I was prescient but because I had been willfully blind or dim-witted, or both.†   (source)
  • Yet, with her prescience, she was aware of dooms and sorrows outside her lover's purview.†   (source)
  • Now she spoke, for the first time since they had left Jefferson, since she had climbed into the buggy with a kind of clumsy and fumbling and trembling eagerness (which he thought derived from terror, alarm, until he found that he was quite wrong) before he could help her, to sit on the extreme edge of the seat, small, in the fusty shawl and clutching the umbrella, leaning forward as if by leaning forward she would arrive the sooner, arrive immediately after the horse and before he, Quentin, would, before the prescience of her desire and need could warn its consummation.†   (source)
  • He stared at Esta oddly, quite proud of his prescience in this case.†   (source)
  • I suppose I had some hazy prescience of that eventuality being in the air.†   (source)
  • Hare's strange prescience of the fatality that overshadowed these men had received its first verification in the sudden taking off of Snap Naab.†   (source)
  • Had he any prescience of the day, five years to come, when Josiah Bounderby of Coketown was to die of a fit in the Coketown street, and this same precious will was to begin its long career of quibble, plunder, false pretences, vile example, little service and much law?†   (source)
  • It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats in those swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them in the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of marching regiments in the east.†   (source)
  • Hither, then, the stranger held his way, eagerly followed by the willing teams, whose instinct gave them a prescience of refreshment and rest.†   (source)
  • The artifice showed that the woman, by some mysterious intuition, had grasped the paradoxical truth that blindness may operate more vigorously than prescience, and the short-sighted effect more than the far-seeing; that limitation, and not comprehensiveness, is needed for striking a blow.†   (source)
  • For such is the wonderful skill, prescience of experience, and invincible confidence acquired by some great natural geniuses among the Nantucket commanders; that from the simple observation of a whale when last descried, they will, under certain given circumstances, pretty accurately foretell both the direction in which he will continue to swim for a time, while out of sight, as well as his probable rate of progression during that period.†   (source)
  • How little did I then think that the very first news I should hear from Mrs. Smith, when I next came into the country, would be that Barton cottage was taken: and I felt an immediate satisfaction and interest in the event, which nothing but a kind of prescience of what happiness I should experience from it, can account for.†   (source)
  • Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,
    The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
    The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers
    and judges broad at the back-top,
    The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved
    blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,
    The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,
    The ugly face of som†   (source)
  • By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.†   (source)
  • Vex not his prescience; be attentive.†   (source)
  • Softly he spoke; then striding took his way, With his drawn sword, where haughty Rhamnes lay; His head rais'd high on tapestry beneath, And heaving from his breast, he drew his breath; A king and prophet, by King Turnus lov'd: But fate by prescience cannot be remov'd.†   (source)
  • *lie huddled together
    For slain is man, right as another beast;
    And dwelleth eke in prison and arrest,
    And hath sickness, and great adversity,
    And oftentimes guilteless, pardie* *by God
    What governance is in your prescience,
    That guilteless tormenteth innocence?†   (source)
  • It is plain, that natural religion proves the first, by intimating the necessity of a providence guiding and governing the world, from the consequence of the wisdom, justice, prescience, and goodness of the Almighty Creator: for otherwise it would be absurd to think, that God should create a world, without any care or providence over it, in guiding the operations of nature, so as to preserve the order of his creation.†   (source)
  • *will
    "And, certes, if I hadde prescience
    Your will to know, ere ye your lust* me told, *will
    I would it do withoute negligence:
    But, now I know your lust, and what ye wo'ld,
    All your pleasance firm and stable I hold;
    For, wist I that my death might do you ease,
    Right gladly would I dien you to please.†   (source)
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