Foretouch

Is it progress at all, or is it retrogression, is it light or darkness, is it civilization or a foretouch of the disrupting force of intellectual anarchy and moral decay?

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It was as if something of the Beyond unrolled itself in exquisite promise and foretouch; as if great gates were open, through which one day - into which this day was transfiguring - they might sail in to an eternal blessedness.

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There was a foretouch of death in the thought.

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A foretouch of future shadows fell on them when they heard of Noel and Gregor MacLean having joined the London Scottish.

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