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an indication of the approach of something — especially something bad- The warm summer is a harbinger of things to come.
harbinger = an indication of the approach of something
- Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,
Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.William Shakespeare -- Macbeth - And yonder shines Aurora's harbingerWilliam Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- I am afraid I am not altogether a harbinger of good; and yet, too, I am to a certain extent a messenger of peace.Henry James -- Washington Square
- And hung throughout the city were the dwarves' flameless lanterns, their multicolored sparks harbingers of the Beors' long dusk and night.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- This plunged the island into a mild panic and many of the mothers feared that the man was the harbinger of the law.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- It was one of those lovely harbingers of spring, given as a sign in dreary winter that earth is not forsaken of warmth and beauty.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- Some carrion birds-harbingers, I think the locals call them-had come in through the broken glass doors in the dining hall and were finishing the feast.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- The harbinger of bad news.Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
- And, like harbingers of the coming spring, one by one motorcars started to appear on the deserted roads.Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
- The whitening sky was the harbinger of day.Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
- Not a cloud was visible, and she secretly fancied the circumstance might be taken as a harbinger of peace and security.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
- "She's heard an owl calling in the night; that's a harbinger of death.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- And then there came the harbingers from King Arthur for to harbour him, and his kings, dukes, earls, barons, and knights.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
- They swept toward her, harbingers of the storm that was to come.Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
- CHAPTER XXXIII IN THE SUN—A HARBINGER A week passed, and there were no tidings of Bathsheba; nor was there any explanation of her Gilpin's rig.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- The sun rose, the morning of her nuptials, on a day so bright and cloudless, that Inez hailed it as a harbinger of future happiness.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- The hour is still distant, but I feel already those harbingers, those outriders, figures of one's friends in absence.Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
- He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger[307] of a greater friend.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- They were the harbingers sent to survey the land.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
harbingers = indications of the approach of something
harbinger = an indication of the approach of something
harbinger = an indication of the approach of something
harbingers = an indication of the approach of something