As we know that we must die, that worldly pleasures are brief and unreal, and that sin draws evil in its train, yet wonder when these phrases become solid and practical in our experience, so, in the first flush and wonder of the promised emancipation, Moses had forgotten the predicted interval of trial.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Kali predicted a great downpour, so it occurred to Stas that the ravine, which was becoming narrower and narrower, would not be a safe shelter for the night, for it could change into a torrent.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
"Well," he predicted, "you're going to see a good many more of that kind before very long."
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton