1 Therewithal many a warning of wizards of old terrifies her with appalling presage.
2 At this a sudden sign meets their eyes, mighty in augural presage, as the high event taught thereafter, and in late days boding seers prophesied of the omen.
3 But thee, O mother, overworn old age, exhausted and untrue, frets with vain distress, and amid embattled kings mocks thy presage with false dismay.
4 It was not difficult, however, to foretell the result, if any presage could be drawn from the feelings of those who crowded the place.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 5 She had heard that note in men's voices often enough to know that it presaged a declaration of love.
6 In the hospitals during the war she had seen too many faces wearing this pinched look not to know what it inevitably presaged.
7 Tremendous as these sounds were, and yet more terrible from the awful event which they presaged, there was a sublimity mixed with them, which Rebecca's high-toned mind could feel even in that moment of terror.
8 The yellow and vapoury sunset which had wrapped up Eustacia from his parting gaze had presaged change.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 9 The cannonade of the Isle of Re presaged to him the dragonnades of the Cevennes; the taking of La Rochelle was the preface to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 10 Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls.