Showers of blood have been recorded by historians and poets as preternatural--have been considered in the light of prodigies, and regarded where they have happened as fearful prognostics of impending evils.
It will be seen that this modern study of clouds as prognostics simply adds to the weather proverbs that have come down to us from the time of Theophrastus.
The midshipman's prognostics were correct, for on the following morning the wind and sea had subsided considerably.
His prognostics were correct, for with the first blush of dawn a low-lying layer of vapour began to roll across the surface of the sea.
The Sub's prognostics concerning the change of wind had become verified.
The weather became excessively hot; it was affirmed by some of the physicians that this heat would prove fatal to their patients; but, contrary to the prognostics of the physicians, it stopped the progress of the plague.
He touched at Hispaniola, where Ovando the governor refused him admittance on shore, even to take shelter during a hurricane, the prognostics of which his experience had taught him to discern.
And as in inferior creatures there were prognostics of man--and here Browning repeats himself--so in man there are prognostics of the future and loftier humanity.
Nature, it is true, he thinks, leads up to man, and therefore has elements in her which are dim prophecies and prognostics of us; but she is only connected with us as the road is with the goal it reaches in the end.
Judging from the reports of the inspector of military schools, young Bonaparte was not, of all the pupils at Brienne in 1784, the one most calculated to excite prognostics of future greatness and glory.
Josephine was fully alive to the fatal prognostics which were to be deduced from this conjugal separation.
I am loth to see the prognostics of wrath upon your souls, or upon the land.
But all are familiar with Jenner's prognostics of rain.
All are familiar with the ordinary prognostics of good and bad weather.
The shepherds of the people should understand the prognostics of state tempests; hollow blasts of wind seemingly at a distance, and secret swellings of the sea, often precede a storm.
The prognostics or presages of this revolution it may now be difficult to recover; but it is evident that Child, before the time when Lord Orford wrote this passage, predicted the separation on true and philosophical principles.
And the prognostics were so redundant, that a volume might be collected of passages from various writers who had predicted it.
These variations, and the conflict of several small currents of air, which divided the mist, and transformed it into clouds, the borders of which were visible, appeared to me infallible prognostics of a change in the weather.
Nearer the sea, where shocks are frequent, far from being dreaded by the inhabitants, they are regarded with satisfaction as the prognostics of a wet and fertile year.
On the other hand, the legislative power which he reserved to himself and council, together with so great an army, independent of the parliament, were bad prognostics of his intention to submit to a civil and legal constitution.
The view of past calamities no longer presented dismal prognostics of the future: it tended only to enhance the general exultation for those scenes of happiness and tranquillity which all men now confidently promised themselves.
These, considered as prognostics of good or evil, are frequently introduced by Shakespeare.
It was obvious that no contemptible prognostics of the weather were to be taken from certain motions and appearances in birds and beasts.
I never heard whether it was in consequence of any prognostics of Wilson's that this act of self-denial was put into practice.
Of the Prognosticswe have only a few lines preserved by Priscian, and a passage repeated by the author, also in his De Divinatione.
Previous to these he had produced in hexameters, also, a translation of the Prognostics of Aratus.
We must wait, but with prognostics little encouraging, to see whether a professed concern for popular education will result in any effective scheme.
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