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    After my first exhibition I was called to all parts of the country to make portraits of houses that were soon to be deserted or debased; indeed, my arrival seemed often to be only a few paces ahead of the auctioneer's, a presage of doom.†  (source)
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    Ah, not if you were like me, if sleep was to you a presage of horror!†  (source)
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    Garrett knew the dark, heavy clouds on the horizon presaged a coming storm.†  (source)
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    He knew young vampires only too well; did this emotion presage some misstep on my part?†  (source)
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    I reached it in the early morning after this night which presaged my war; a bleak, draughty train ride, a damp depot seemingly near no town whatever, a bus station in which none of the people were fully awake, or seemed clean, or looked as though they had homes anywhere; a bus which passengers entered and left at desolate stopping places in the blackness; a chilled nighttime wandering in which I tried to decipher between lapses into stale sleep, the meaning of Leper's telegram.†  (source)
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    She told Inspector Thomas Mathew how in the last few weeks she had noticed some presaging signs, some insolence, some rudeness.†  (source)
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    The Zen Gnostics would say that this emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experience.†  (source)
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    E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "It presageth" in older English, today we say "It presages."
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    They were both afraid that the silence might presage a ruinous outburst and a sudden change of mind on their trip.†  (source)
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    NIGHT HAD FALLEN by the time Grace returned, her arrival presaged by the glow of a lamp expanding in the hall outside.†  (source)
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    To the east, a faint yellow glow tinted a section of the horizon, presaging the return of the sun.†  (source)
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    Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.†  (source)
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    She did not answer, but as he looked at her it seemed to him that something in her softened, as though a bitter frost were yielding at the first faint presage of Spring.†  (source)
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