The spring came with less observation than had been devoted to the winter previous; and the usualharbingers of advancing warmth--the small singing birds and northern flowers--were present ere we were well aware of their welcome appearance.
Make all our trumpets speak, give them all breath, Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
And even the like precurse of fierce events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climature and countrymen.
One hour had passed since Moyen's ultimatum when the first vanguard of the American flyers, obeying the peremptory signal, took the air and darted eastward to meet the winged death-harbingers of Moyen.
In most cases, upon the contact of plane with aero-sub, the aero-subs and planes were instantly blotted from view by the yellow, golden flames from the heart of the winged harbingers of Moyen.
The invincible oppressor bears the name of unexpected circumstances; I encountered one of hisharbingers to-day.
On the fifth the Reichstag would be opened, and the Duke of Alba, with several experienced colonels, had arrived as harbingers of the approaching war.
She was obliged to struggle against these harbingers of the coming tempest, and her heart grew lighter during the conflict.
For, though dark the night And sinister with scud and rack, The hour that brings us back to back But harbingers the larger light.
All these plain harbingers of sudden conflict broke on the startled ear; And last arose a sound that made your blood leap, the ringing battle-cheer.
The good emir, who was punctiliously religious, and likewise a great dealer in compliments, made an harangue five times more prolix and insipid than his little harbingers had already delivered.
In this manner were they occupied when the harbingers of the imperial procession began to proclaim, "Inhabitants of Rocnabad!
First came two harbingers with wands; next a herald, followed by two pages and two trumpeters; then a hundred foot-guards.
In vain I tried to struggle against these harbingers of disease.
On every side, wherever the eye rested, it discovered signs of strife and turmoil, harbingers of pain and death.
The man is a dotard; he cannot sing; he is palsied.
They were the harbingers of death to the helpless woman.
The good Emir, who was punctiliously religious, and likewise a great dealer in compliments, made an harangue five times more prolix and insipid than his harbingers had already delivered.
They are harbingers of summer quite as much as the Swallow itself, coming to us in May and leaving in September for some warmer coast.
First of all appeared four hundred men, in a uniform dress, as harbingers to clear the way before him.
They announced the approach of Montezuma himself, and soon after his harbingers came in sight.
Spring's real harbingers are too subtle for the eye and ear.
The piercing shriek of a steamboat whistle roused the woman just as the first harbingers of dawn spread over the river a crimson flush that turned it into a stream of blood.
The harbingersof the wet season had already arrived.
Harbingers had been sent on to announce Bourbon's visit to the ancient capital of the Franche-Comté.
How poor are kings’ speeches and Presidential messages by the side of such utterances, fitharbingers of the sublime era of Humanity!
The Boulevards were well stocked with flowers to-day, the bouquetières having resumed their stalls; and many a pedestrian might be seen bargaining for these fair and frail harbingers of rosy spring.
Those which visit France are the harbingers of the frost; and when they make an early appearance, it is well known that the winter will be a severe one.
At the first approach of frost their earliest harbingers begin to appear among us, and about the middle of October these travelling bands arrive in increasing numbers.
These birds are well known to navigators as the harbingers which foretell the approach to the Tropics.
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