Both Uses of
presage
in
Gone with the Wind
- She had heard that note in men's voices often enough to know that it presaged a declaration of love.†
Chpt 3.19 *presaged = served as a sign of something about to happen
- In the hospitals during the war she had seen too many faces wearing this pinched look not to know what it inevitably presaged.†
Chpt 5.61
Definition:
serve as a sign of something about to happen -- typically something bad