All 3 Uses of
herald
in
Bleak House
- When he dines alone in chambers, as he has dined to-day, and has his bit of fish and his steak or chicken brought in from the coffee-house, he descends with a candle to the echoing regions below the deserted mansion, and heralded by a remote reverberation of thundering doors, comes gravely back encircled by an earthy atmosphere and carrying a bottle from which he pours a radiant nectar, two score and ten years old, that blushes in the glass to find itself so famous and fills the whole…†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Hirrold—Herald— Harold—Skampling—Skumpling—I beg your pardon—Skimpole.†
Chpt 43-45
- Such is the assemblage of armorial bearings on coach panels that the Herald's College might be supposed to have lost its father and mother at a blow.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(herald as in: heralds the coming of...) a sign that something will happen -- especially something important and good
or:
announce or welcome -- especially with enthusiasm