Both Uses of
presage
in
Ivanhoe
- CHAPTER X Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians.†
Chpt 10 *
- Tremendous as these sounds were, and yet more terrible from the awful event which they presaged, there was a sublimity mixed with them, which Rebecca's high-toned mind could feel even in that moment of terror.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(presage) serve as a sign of something about to happen -- typically something bad