Almost instantly Toomey was slumbering tranquilly, but Mrs. Toomey had symptoms which she recognized as presaging hours of wakefulness.
Thick volumes of smoke rolled up from the engine attached to the mixed train that stood on the side-track which paralleled the shipping corrals at Prouty, to sink again in the heavy atmosphere presaging a storm.
Cannonading could be distinctly heard in our front, telling of serious work going on there and presaging a share of it for us, the regiments moving to the assistance of our comrades.
The news of the capture spread through the camp and had an inspiriting effect, no doubt upon the army; and perhaps was regarded as presaging further victory.
And yet practices presaging sanctification may be found in much more primitive cults, in the purification ceremonies, whose beginnings may be traced far back into the totemic age.
Inasmuch as the world empire belongs essentially to the age of deity cults, it is not so much a realization of the idea of humanity as a preparation for it, presaging a development beyond that of the single State.
My presaging apprehension represented her encircled in the arms of some happy rival, and in consequence for ever lost to me.
O, my presaging thoughts in ugly form Suggest some tragedy.
Again her mother looked at her intently, presaging another disclosure.
Meanwhile the sun went down in troubled crimson splendour over the pines, presaging more squalls.
When he crossed the threshold, he was struck with such a damp of presaging fear, that he durst not in person approach her apartment, nor even, by questioning the servant, inform himself of the particulars he wanted to know.
But the officer, who had formerly lost a considerable sum by the escape of a prisoner, would not run any risk in an affair of such consequence, and our hero was obliged to submit to the tortures of his own presaging fears.
There was this odd division of two weathers, presaging a change.
Presaging tears apace began to rain; But tears in mortal miseries are vain.
This omen eyed Amphinomus, who thus presaging cried: "The gods from force and fraud the prince defend; O peers!
The moon[296] grows pale at that presaging sight, And half her train of stars have lost their light.
Such were our counter-tides at land, and so Presaging of the fatal blow, In their prodigious ebb and flow.
Already has he lifted high the sign, Which crowned the conquering arms of Constantine; The moon grows pale at that presaging sight, And half her train of stars have lost their light.
Now speedy death attends the guiltless youth, If my presaging soul divines with truth; Which, O!
If he fails to see these four presaging tokens of an avatâra, he will be simply a Chakravartin" (king of earthly kings).
He thought in his heart, It will be an easy thing to keep these four presaging tokens from the young prince.
Soldiers were summoned from the distant provinces, and a cordon of detachments thrown out to a distance of four miles in each direction, to keep the other presaging tokens from the prince.
If he is destined to be a great Buddha, four presaging tokens will make his mission plain.
Gradually it became the custom to call the secretaries ministers, and these officials began to absorb the powers formerly confided to the Consejos, presaging the disappearance of the latter and the development of modern ministries.
In sculpture the traditional use of painted wood remained a dominant factor throughout most of the century, although there were evidences presaging its abandonment.
He who had to create, had always hispresaging dreams and astral premonitions--and believed in believing!
But he who had to create, had always hispresaging dreams and astral premonitions--and believed in believing!
The presaging dreams and visions attributed to supernatural agency appear frequently in Gothic fiction.
The play of lightning, supernatural thunders, roaring tempests announce the approach and operations of the devil, and ghosts walk to the accompaniment of presaging tempests.
Wilkie Collins illustrates the presaging vision of approaching disaster in The Dream Woman.
Amongst the death-presaging birds may be mentioned the raven, the crow, and the swallow.
