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He fixed his eyes on her, wondering again if he was witnessing what could very well be a presage of his own fate.
Also, as I have been informed, he had a presage before he first attempted it, which did foresee it would turn to his ruin.
Many people thought that the overly saccharine speech that Teri gave last episode was a stone-cold presage to her death.
Manchester United have won through November in a manner that should presage a championship challenge.
Perhaps this morning was a promise of beauty yet to come, a presage of what we can expect later on this week.
This act of rebellion was but a presage of things to come, as David, after graduating in 1965, left Detroit for the East Coast.
Some of the columnists' appointments seem to presage the adoption of a tone even more raspingly ideological.
However, this entry seems to presage Kenny's imminent defeat, and in so doing raises the ethnic issue once again.
Hence, dissatisfaction could arise and presage changes in contract type, terms, or ownership of the parcel.
The change of government, Wilson thought, would not necessarily presage a change in the political culture.
But one political event in Limerick did presage another bigger problem ahead.
Terrified by her presage of death, the patient immediately contacted Mitchell for a series of consultations.
This makes possible rapid identification of a disturbing trend that could presage an adverse event.
We may speculate too whether they will presage anything very different from what was said.
In the story, clairvoyant dreams presage a family's gruesome end.
Moscow's brief trade skirmish with Ukraine could presage tougher stances with other neighbors.
The quick, dark eye, with its beautifully formed eyebrow, seemed to presage the arch remark, to which the rosy and half-smiling lip appeared ready to give utterance.
The drop in inventory may presage surging imports as firms restock, meaning that growing demand will simply flow abroad, as has often happened.
As in past battles, the legal changes will presage changes in culture and public opinion where the previously heretical becomes the obvious and the normal.
For this is both a presage of the future, reflected in her grave and silent face as she supports his little body, and the epitome of what it is to be a mother.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Snow was falling steadily, one of those dry, sifting snows that presage a white christmas in the middle west.
Thus she left him without so much as a backward glance to presage future favour.
Then for a long while she could not sleep at night and was haunted by a presage of disaster.
In the early spring of 1784 Diderot had an attack which he knew to be the presage of the end.
Then, in sooth, by the rule of contraries, a fall should presage humility's reward.
This was later regarded as a presage of the rapid spread of Alexander's empire and its ultimate breaking-up among the diadochi.
Transient thought of that which shall be, presage of better rest?
Such conspiracies were the presage of what was soon to happen in Germany.
For a moment there was a pause, as if at a presage of disaster.
It was not difficult, however, to foretell the result, if any presage could be drawn from the feelings of those who crowded the place.
Every sough of the wind among the brackens was a dread presage.
But the softness in the Christmas air did not presage a thaw.
Then for a moment there was intense stillness, made horrible by a presage of what was to come.
And above all, the sign of the cross to that instrument was to us a great rejoicing, and as it were a certain presage of good.
Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.
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