How To Use Presage In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Despite its rather insubstantial construction, the basket weighs thirty troy ounces and presages the simple elegance of the neoclassical style.
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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
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The crisis has led to a widespread panic about oil shortages that in turn affects the US presidential elections and presages a world recession.
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Nonetheless, the new demographicpresages a sea change in social networking.
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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
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We may speculate too whether they will presage anything very different from what was said.
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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
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Some of the columnists' appointments seem to presage the adoption of a tone even more raspingly ideological.
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Each strand of the story anticipates its own resolution as surely as the presence of koalas presages masticated eucalyptus.
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It was Mellor who salvaged something from the disastrous 1990 Broadcasting Bill, which presaged the widely-ridiculed independent television franchise round.
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The dog ludicrously albeit lovingly christened Precious Baby by Ted's late wife and resolutely called PB by Ted himself - hesitated at the doorway and blinked out at the street, where the autumn rain was falling in the sort of steady waves that presaged alengthy and bone-chilling storm.
A Traitor to Memory
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When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
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I dare say before this Time you have interpreted the Northern Storm; if the presages chill'd your Blood, what how must you be froze and stiffend at the Disgrace brought upon our Arms unless some warmer passion seaze you, and Anger and resentment Fire your Breast.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 - 31 July 1777
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But still the economy is not showing signs of any of the excesses that normally presage a recession.
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The book opens with a haunting and portentous prologue that simultaneously catalyses the twin narrative strands of the novel, presages its thematic concerns and gives a first taste of the dark symbolism with which it is heavily laden.
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Konigsberg, above a hundred years before, foretold would be an admirable year, and the German chronologers presaged would be the climacterical year of the world.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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In his jubilation at these presages the King, standing to make his exit, announced boomingly that this gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet sat so smiling to his heart that, at every health he would drink today, the great cannons would tell the clouds.
It Happened at Elsinore
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I wish,” she added, with that love of evil presage which is common in the lower ranks,
Saint Ronan's Well
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He is haughty and imperious: He is a proud man, and his pride is a certain presage of his fall coming on.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing.
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Does the creation of such an enlightened tag presage a whole series of such musings?
Spare me misplaced cries of 'sexism'
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Those black clouds presage a storm.
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It was not, as its critics asserted, meant to presage an alliance between the Left and the Liberals.
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Those black clouds presage a storm.
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In the story, clairvoyant dreams presage a family's gruesome end.
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Note, Pride will have a fall; it is the certain presage and forerunner of it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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But in medicine it is used to describe the symptoms which presage the onset of an epileptic fit.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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That final gesture seems to have presaged the death of Diana Princess of Wales in a car crash in August 1997.
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There, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator of Light and Space art, and Helene Winer, later the director of Artists Space and Metro Pictures in New York, curated landmark exhibitions by young local artists who bridged the gap between Conceptual art and postminimalism, and presaged the development of postmodernism in the later 1970s.
Bill Bush: Set Your Clocks To Pacific Standard Time: This Artweek.LA (August 22-September 4, 2011)
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Three years after she developed asthma, I had also; her stomach problems presaged similar ones for me.
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These images also act as a presage of impending catastrophe.
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His bold and free demeanour, his attachment to rich dress and decoration, his inaptitude to receive instruction, and his hardening himself against rebuke, were circumstances which induced the good old man, with more haste than charity, to set the forward page down as a vessel of wrath, and to presage that the youth nursed that pride and haughtiness of spirit which goes before ruin and destruction.
The Abbot
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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.
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Nothing had presaged the dreadful fate about to befall him.
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This makes possible rapid identification of a disturbing trend that could presage an adverse event.
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See, once again one of my posts on this site presages a new trend at the cutting-edge of the doodah thingummybob.
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Hence, dissatisfaction could arise and presage changes in contract type, terms, or ownership of the parcel.
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When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
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But one political event in Limerick did presage another bigger problem ahead.
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However, this entry seems to presage Kenny's imminent defeat, and in so doing raises the ethnic issue once again.
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It was scarcely definite enough to be called brogue, yet there was a trick in the turning of the sentence, the wrong sound of a letter here and there, that was almost irresistible to McLean, and presaged a misuse of infinitives and possessives with which he w as very familiar and which touched him nearly.
Freckles
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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
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This funeral rite was a kind of presage of, or prelude to, his death approaching.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
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But in medicine it is used to describe the symptoms which presage the onset of an epileptic fit.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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But in fact they may actually have presaged that the contemporary presidency and electoral process were beginning to disintegrate.
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An added worry is that several sectors of China's economy may be overheating and this could presage higher wholesale and retail prices over the year to come.
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All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a "brool" over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom.
The Deadlocked City
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It was a very hard seat which Mr. Jeffreys had vacated, and her ladyship, after sitting there over two hours, nodding asleep a good part of the time, began to feel internal sinkings and flutterings which presaged what she called a "swound," and necessitated recourse to a crystal flask of strong waters which she had prudently brought in her muff.
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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Repeatedly the disasters he presaged were less troubling than I had feared.
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Psychosis risk is the putative prodrome of schizophrenia, minor neurocognitive is the prelude of dementia,and mixed anxiety/depression presages more clearly defined mood and anxiety disorders.
Allen Frances: Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health
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Also, as I have been informed, he had a presage before he first attempted it, which did foresee it would turn to his ruin.
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A common lament among those who like to prognosticate about America's future is that China and India are churning out more and better engineering students than the U.S., which presages their rise to superpowerdom.
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Mr. Mueller's mature paintings, which took shape in the early 1990s, were cross-cultural hybrids that presaged many current concerns in abstract painting, most importantly its scant interest inbeing purely abstract.
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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
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We do not know if we can escape the doom now presaged by the ‘worst case scenarios’ with which we have become familiar.
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It also presages a debate that is growing in not only environmentalist circles, but in religious ones as well.
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Phutatorius, who was somewhat of a cholerick spirit, was just going to snatch the cudgels out of Didius’s hands, in order to bemaul Yorick to some purpose — and that the desperate monosyllable Z ... ds was the exordium to an oration, which, as they judged from the sample, presaged but a rough kind of handling of him; so that my uncle Toby’s good-nature felt a pang for what
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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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 Anchor.
Barnaby Rudge
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The story, which presages the suicidal disappointments of Martin Eden, is a reverse twist on a book that London loved all his life, Signa (1875) by the English novelist Marie Louise de la Ramée, who wrote under the penname "Ouida.
The woe of an aspiring genius.
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The imminent rain brought dire presages into his mind, making him shiver uncontrollably.
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But for unknown reasons, in the remaining cases the twisting did not presage a flare.
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THANKS, RON -- The Post editorial board writes again on the Brown allegations, lauding the U.S. attorney's office for having a look: It's a welcome move by U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen that hopefully presages a swift but thorough examination of charges that have disquieted the District. ...
DeMorning DeBonis: March 11, 2011
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But in medicine it is used to describe the symptoms which presage the onset of an epileptic fit.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Mon père voyait qu'il ne pouvait ébranler sa résolution, fit ce qu'elle lui demanda, pourvoyant tant que possible aux besoins de la route, et c'est le coeur gros de sinistres présages que mes parents virent partir leur bonne et fidèle servante.
Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
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In the very beginning of founding this work it is said that the gods exerted their divinity to presage the future greatness of this empire; for though the birds declared for the unhallowing of all the other temples, they did not admit of it with respect to that of
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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Nonsense, this is a brilliant album and a presage of success.
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Many people thought that the overly saccharine speech that Teri gave last episode was a stone-cold presage to her death.
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Berlin's concern with the problem of culture anticipated the centrality in political theory of questions of identity and membership that began in the 1990s; his sympathy for the sentiments and needs underlying nationalism, which set him apart from many liberal theorists of his own time, presaged the revival of ˜liberal nationalism™ in the works of younger thinkers such as Michael Walzer, David Miller, Yael Tamir and Michael Ignatieff.
Isaiah Berlin
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It was scarcely definite enough to be called brogue, yet there was a trick in the turning of the sentence, the wrong sound of a letter here and there, that was almost irresistible to McLean, and presaged a misuse of infinitives and possessives with which he was very familiar and which touched him nearly.
Freckles
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But in medicine it is used to describe the symptoms which presage the onset of an epileptic fit.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
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When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
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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 Anchor.
Barnaby Rudge
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Her perfume, Jesus tells us, presages his death: ‘She has anointed my body in anticipation of my burial.’
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The observed apical-basal polarity in the zygote of Arabidopsis and Fucus presages polar development during embryogenesis.
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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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It also presages a debate that is growing in not only environmentalist circles, but in religious ones as well.
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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.
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The dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era in a sense presaged the birds and mammals of the Cenozoic era.
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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 As — trampsychus and Nicephorus, I shall leave unto your divination.
Letter to a Friend
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The certainty of their ultimate Illumination, or Buddhaship, was always foretokened by certain presages.
The Story of Sumedha. I. The Buddha. Translated from the Introduction to the Jtaka (i. 31).
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Then, presaged by a unison line of sax and trumpet, the rhythm kicks in.
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For before the sternmost ships of the squadron were clear of the Straits, the serenity of the sky was suddenly changed, and gave us all the presages of an impending storm; and immediately the wind shifted to the southward, and blew in such violent squalls that we were obliged to hand our topsails and reef our mainsail.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
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This quirky, sumptuous body of work presaged the ideas of many postmodernist image manipulators.
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Compaq presaged its entry into digital imaging by introducing a multi-function printer and a scanner last summer.
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This work thus presages the more virulent attack on the German socialists to be found in the Communist Manifesto, produced two years later.
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I greatly feared - and still slightly do fear - that this creature presages a descent into a fantasy nerdfest of Tolkienesque pomposity and orotundity.
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Although she touts her work as a McCain surrogate during his presidential run, she was sidelined by his advisors after repeated gaffes that presaged ones she has made in this campaign.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 7, 2010
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This act of rebellion was but a presage of things to come, as David, after graduating in 1965, left Detroit for the East Coast.
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The monk's death in my novel, and the manner of his dying, presaged my father's death in ways I could not consciously have known.
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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.
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Death was presaged by the alien's horrible radio transmission.
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But still the economy is not showing signs of any of the excesses that normally presage a recession.
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For now we are approaching the year 1588, “which an astronomer of Konigsberg, above a hundred years before, foretold would be an admirable year, and the German chronologers presaged would be the climacterical year of the world.”
Westward Ho!
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Parents' groups, always on the lookout for something to blame other than the actual parents for the problems with kids, latched onto it as the latest presage of the decline and fall of western civilization.
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This speech, which is in fact a theatrical device to allow Orlando to fetch his faithful servant Adam, presages Adam's death which represents the death of old fashioned virtues and ways.
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The recent inscription of his epitaph upon their large granite gravestone gave him a sense of contentment and presaged a new era for humankind.
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Manchester United have won through November in a manner that should presage a championship challenge.
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But in medicine it is used to describe the symptoms which presage the onset of an epileptic fit.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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If I understand Dispensational theology (and that may not even be possible, given the inherent contradictions and outright nonsense with which such premillennial claptrap is imbued), the coming of the "anti-Christ" should be a good thing, since it presages The Rapture, wherein the Righteous are bodily ascended into heaven, leaving the rest of us heathens and unbelievers to live in peace, once and for all.
Discourse.net: New Low For McCain Campaign: Obama == The Anti-Christ
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Constance, on guard at the moment, perceived the slight "curdling" of space which presages the appearance of the terminus of a hyper-spatial tube and gave the alarm.
Children of the Lens
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The inauguration of the new astronomer royal presaged a drastic reversal of fortune for John Harrison, whom Halley had always admired.
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Despite their antiquity, their bodies were already starting to presage humanity, the scientists said.
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Aware of dire presages connected to the coming of a solar eclipse, he sought to avert the impending dangers; but he died at dawn on May 21, 1639.
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But in medicine it is used to describe the symptoms which presage the onset of an epileptic fit.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Terrified by her presage of death, the patient immediately contacted Mitchell for a series of consultations.
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But still the economy is not showing signs of any of the excesses that normally presage a recession.
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Without warning or presage the still evening air was smitten and made softly musical by the pealing of a distant chime, calling vespers to its brothers in Antwerp's hundred belfries; and one by one, far and near, the responses broke out, until it seemed as if the world must be vibrant with silver and brazen melody; until at the last the great bells in the
The Black Bag
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So I don't think today's high oil prices presage recession.
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Reisz's camera captures the drama of this specific event, but the film also presages a new mentality and a new freedom that won't be restrained.
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Proud men are frequently most proud, and insolent, and haughty, just before their destruction, so that it is a certain presage that they are upon the brink of it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Yet this massive show of strength by the unions ultimately presaged their downfall even though this was not at all apparent at the time.
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When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
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Perhaps this morning was a promise of beauty yet to come, a presage of what we can expect later on this week.
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When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
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His position was threatened in 1788 when the illness of George III presaged a change of government.
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When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage.
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But in medicine it is used to describe the symptoms which presage the onset of an epileptic fit.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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I shall narrate a trivial incident which presaged the shape of things to come.
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The large number of moderate earthquakes that have occurred recently could presage a larger quake soon.
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figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
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This presaged the mathematisation of nature of Renaissance humanists, engineers and magicians.
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The change of government, Wilson thought, would not necessarily presage a change in the political culture.
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In the sudden calamity that presaged the sinking, it is possible the skipper or a flying object in the wheelhouse knocked the joystick control to one side.
