The ruins, as they lay, meant nothing as yet, for his mind refused to envisage them and he could see them only as they had stood.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
He had to live, with a past that was no comfort, going on down the pathway of a future which he attempted not to see clearly, because when he did envisage it he was stricken with just such a panic as now overwhelmed him.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
The whole desolate picture seemed to envisage thoughts which he had never been able to drive from his mind, seemed in the person of this old man to breathe such incomparable, unalterable fidelity that he felt himself suddenly a traitor who had slipped unworthily away and hidden from a righteous doom.
"The Box with the Broken Seals"
E. Phillips Oppenheim