Presaged Sentence Examples

This statesmanlike beginning of a Crusade, preached, as no Crusade had ever been preached before, in a general council of all Europe, presaged well for its success.

Even friends of the railway presaged that such outlay could not by any possibility be remunerative; but the contrary became evident from the moment the line was opened on the 17th of September 1838.

Their appearance at sea was regarded as a good omen, for although it presaged a tempest, yet it enabled the sailors to steer for a place of safety.

It was a conflict that presaged Vietnam in many of its political motives, military tactics and in its use of toxic defoliants.

Worms were also presaged in science fiction, by Brunners 1975 novel The Shockwave Rider.

It was the advent in 1932 of Robert Boutflour, C.B.E. that presaged the growth of the College to over 800 students.

John Williams' Oscar for Best Musical Score (who knew a shark had its own theme music?) presaged his ascendance as the composer of choice for movie blockbusters.

The master told him a dream of the previous night, which, he thought, presaged his death.

Before writing his history of Rome ('Pco,uacKa or `PcoyacKI `Iaropta), Dio Cassius had dedicated to the emperor Severus an account of various dreams and prodigies which had presaged his elevation to the throne (perhaps the Ev6Sia attributed to Dio by Suidas), and had also written a biography of his fellow-countryman Arrian.