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

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

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)

Then Pallas struck The suitors with delirium; wide they stretch’d Their jaws with unspontaneous laughter loud; Their meat dripp’d blood; tears fill’d their eyes, and dire Presages of approaching woe, their hearts.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

Presages are not vain; when she departed, Napè by stumbling on the threshold, started.

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)