That at such a time, when all the other holy things perished, this should have been preserved, gave them good hopes of Rome, which that omen seemed to presage would be eternal.
These portents, it seems, did not merely presage the victory, but also the subsequent events, of which this was the prosperous beginning.
The frost bit keen, the heavens were black with the presage of coming storm, and the utter silence seemed the hush of death.
To love so great, to such transcendent store Of early worth, and sure presage of more?
Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning-dreams, as poets tell, are true.
The conjunction of two such planets in a youth presage much good unto him.
A flame arose on the opposite side; and Julian, who too clearly understood that his foremost vessels, in attempting to land, had been fired by the enemy, dexterously converted their extreme danger into a presage of victory.
At the age of nineteen, the son of Valentinian seemed to possess the talents of peace and war; and his personal success against the Alemanni was interpreted as a sure presage of his Gothic triumphs.
At this time, in the middle of the night, a strange thing happened, almost prophetic of the misfortune to those Moros, and apparently a presage of their fall and destruction.
A cold January, a feverish February, a dusty March, a weeping April, a windy May, presage a good year and gay.
A dry March, a snowy February, a moist April, and a dry May, presage a good year.
I presage for you, if you follow my counsels, complete success; and the beautiful Clarimunda for a wife.
But if Queen Isoude refuses, put on black sails; they will be the presage of my impending death.
Sign of their cordial love said some, presage of coming woe croaked others.
I thought," said Quentin, "that you said but now, that you could not presage your own fortune?
However, the divers plunged into the river and found the ring in the very place where he had thrown it in, whereat Haroun rejoiced with an exceeding joy, regarding it as a presage of fair fortune.
The event does not concern you,' said Hiouen-thsang; 'it is the presage of my approaching end.
Nothing seemed to presage the calamities of the day.
In his message, Washington announced that "the intelligence from the army under the command of General Wayne was a happy presage to military operations against the hostile Indians north of the Ohio.
Among other omens of death may be mentioned high spirits, which have been supposed to presage impending death.
In the north of England,[169] too, the flight of jackdaws down the chimney is held to presage death.
In "Julius Caesar," dreaming of banquet is supposed to presage misfortune.
The face and figure of the man caused Traugott a certain feeling akin to fear, but a world of sweet presage streamed forth upon him from the face of the page.
This was his first confession of that kind, not without a sure presage of his approaching fate; and it was now certain, even from his own acknowledgment, that Hannibal might be conquered.
The presagewith which I was visited was prophetic.
I can confirm this statement from my own observation, and when my tortoise walks in a weak sort of fashion, as if his limbs had no strength, it is a sure presage of fine weather.
The mark, to thee invisible, is upon thy brow, yet hath not that presage of evil already been fulfilled in thy failure to elucidate the Mystery of the Crescent?
Truly, the Omen of the Camel's Hoof which I had ridiculed had been a presage of impending evil that was gradually being fulfilled.
Even though I have presage that I pass in short space from the Mansion of Vexation to the Imperishable Kingdom, yet my memory will only be blotted from the pages of the times to be revived.
