presage
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Presage usually means to give as a presentiment or warning.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
What hateful wretch is this whose mighty thews Presage destruction to his adversaries?
From The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded by Shaw, Bernard
So Romulus, 'tis sung, by Tiber's brook, Presage of sway from twice six vultures took.
From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
I felt my heart as turn'd to snow, Presage, perhaps, that happiness decays!
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
So Romulus, 'tis sung by Tiber's brook, Presage of sway from twice six vultures took.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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Romeo and Juliet
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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