presage

How To Use presage In A Sentence

• As if to presage that there is a new dawn in the world, with the inauguration of President Barack Obama, the strong winds coming from the Sub-Sahara have manifested themselves in the form of what Ghana typically knows as the harmattan season. Accra by Day & Night
• As Mrs Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
• Despite its rather insubstantial construction, the basket weighs thirty troy ounces and presages the simple elegance of the neoclassical style.
• The farewell gesture, the offer to bring Livy and her to America, shook Isa as no other presage of war had so far done. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
• The crisis has led to a widespread panic about oil shortages that in turn affects the US presidential elections and presages a world recession.
• Nonetheless, the new demographicpresages a sea change in social networking.
• As for the latter, it seems to be nothing else but the saying Amen to the Presage, uttered in his accustomary form of Speech, as if he should say, you of the invisible Kingdom of Spirits, have given the Token of my sudden Departure, and you say true, I shall be with you by and by. The Iron Chest of Durley
• We may speculate too whether they will presage anything very different from what was said.
• But why to dream of lettuce should presage some ensuing disease, why to eat figs should signify foolish talk, why to eat eggs great trouble, and to dream of blindness should be so highly commended, according to the oneirocritical verses of Astrampsychus and Nicephorus, I shall leave unto your divination. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
• Some of the columnists' appointments seem to presage the adoption of a tone even more raspingly ideological.