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Example sentences for "harbinger"

Lexicographically close words:
harassed; harasses; harassing; harassment; harassments; harbingers; harbor; harborage; harbored; harboring
  1. I saw the fragments of the cloud Join with the nucleus form, Cirrus to Nimbus quickly bowed-- Sure harbinger of storm.

  2. It is one of the mighty signs of the Almighty, the harbinger that proclaimeth the reality of all the worlds of God.

  3. Behold how the people of the Bayán have utterly failed to recognize that the sole object of whatsoever My Previous Manifestation and Harbinger of My Beauty hath revealed hath been My Revelation and the proclamation of My Cause.

  4. Proud harbinger of day, Who scar'dst the vision with thy clarion shrill, Fell chanticleer; who oft hath reft away My fancied good, and brought substantial ill!

  5. I can now conceive what it must be to hear that shrill prolonged cry (unlike any sound I ever heard in my life before) in the solitude of the forest, and when it is the certain harbinger of death.

  6. Not a cloud was visible, and she secretly fancied the circumstance might be taken as a harbinger of peace and security.

  7. Even the morning star, now so brilliant, had not as the harbinger of the great sun yet made its appearance.

  8. Kinesasis, who had been on the lookout, at length reported the morning star, just visible as the harbinger of dawn.

  9. He was not, however, carried away by it, as were many of his contemporaries, who hailed it as the harbinger of a new era in the history of the Christian Church.

  10. We believe his mission may prove a harbinger of light and hope for his country,--it corresponds with the attitude assumed by philosophic reformers beyond the pale of the Church at many crises in the history of Western Christianity.

  11. A grayish, leaden tinge that marked the horizon showed it was near daybreak; but there was nought of promise in this harbinger of morning.

  12. The richly golden arch of an autumn moon could be seen through the hazy mist of that half frost which is at this season the sure harbinger of a hot day on the morrow.

  13. Ever disposed to revolt, they looked upon it as the harbinger of their own liberty.

  14. A calm succeeded; but it was the harbinger of a storm.

  15. Tristan was a harbinger of Musset; Guinevere gives us a desire for a Cervantes.

  16. It is a woful and terrible laugh, harbinger of the final catastrophe and doom.

  17. London seems indifferent to my destiny; even the tube buskers and streeties see not a harbinger but another shuffling cold-assed long hair.

  18. The old story that the comet is the harbinger or bearer of disease is in vogue.

  19. BIRDS OF EVIL OMEN Besides the turtledove there is no other bird that is the harbinger of good luck.

  20. Nor are the omen birds, prophets of plentiful crops, and the kuaháu, harbinger and companion of the rice crop, forgotten.

  21. This homely inert creature is considered the harbinger of good and evil, and is consulted at the beginning of every journey and of every undertaking where its prophetic voice can be heard.

  22. I dearly know That Joy is harbinger of Woe.

  23. The phrase "harbinger of the abolition of every form of authority" would seem to indicate that Lenine's ideal is that of the old Nihilists--or of Anarchists of the Bakuninist school.

  24. There among lying words it rang out boldly, as the joyous harbinger of the time to come, of a new life open to all in the future;--far or near?

  25. They are the heart's blood of a dying man--the harbinger of the anarchistic movement in Norway.

  26. Homeward-bound ships, from far-off ports, no longer avoid the dreaded rock, but eagerly run for its light as the harbinger of safety.

  27. As the Sabbath morning advanced towards noon-day the glorious sun burst forth, and appeared as a happy harbinger of the fortunate release in store for us.

  28. May you ever be the 'harbinger of glad tidings to Zion,' and long live to continue your watchful care to all who need your solace and support.

  29. The harbinger of Christmas, in Holland, is a Star of Bethlehem carried along through the cities by the young men who pick up alms for the poor.

  30. Is it the harbinger of ready mutual understanding, of quick acceptance of, and delight in, opposing traditions and habits of life and thought?

  31. Moral and intellectual improvement amongst perfectly secluded females is a sure harbinger of national regeneration.

  32. This look is called Shoovadristi or "the auspicious sight" which is held in the light of a harbinger of future felicity.

  33. And, like the darkening of the sun and moon, it was considered by many who saw it as "the harbinger of the coming of the Son of man.

  34. It was not without the suggestion at that moment that it might be the harbinger of the coming of the Son of man; and in my state of mind I was prepared to hail Him as my friend and deliverer.

  35. Then the night arrived, as the harbinger of the Yakshini Sringotpadini, and she herself came soon afterwards.

  36. My life has passed; that grey hue which is the harbinger of Death has just now twitched my locks; and when old age once arrives, a vicious clinging to enjoyment on the part of persons like myself, when all the zest is gone, is mere vanity.


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    Other words:
    ancestor; announce; announcer; antecedent; bushwhacker; evangelist; explorer; forebears; forerun; forerunner; foreshow; frontiersman; fugleman; guide; harbinger; herald; innovator; leader; messenger; notify; omen; pathfinder; pioneer; point; precede; precedent; precursor; predecessor; presage; proclaim; prognosticate; prophesy; scout; token; vanguard