Example Sentences

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This symbol of past power more than man's Presages doom.

From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

Hold your peace, be wise: that fellow In the blew garment has a countenance Presages losse of limme if we encounter.—

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Presages can be drawn from the croak of a magpie, from the rush of waters, and the howling of dogs.

From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart

I love Lady Falkland well, yet her religious Mellanchollie and Presages of Evil have left a Weight upon my Spiritts.

From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne

Presages of the coming struggle were not long in making their appearance.

From The Story of Rouen by Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir