presager
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It was not long before the press-agents of the dumb presager found a romancer willing to undertake the task that Defoe neglected.
From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie
And one conspirator leaped up Amid the clash of tinkling spoons And poured into a protose cup His helping of stewed prunes; And, blood-red presager of doom, Half a tomato hissed across the room.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 by Various
A filthy bird “Becoming;—constant presager of woe; “An owl inactive; omen dire to man.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
