foretokens

Whenever a delegate of one of the lesser states felt that he was losing ground at the Peace Table, and that his country's demands were about to be whittled down as extravagant, he would point significantly to certain "foretokens" of an outbreak of

The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

Perhaps to shew the vanity of trusting to those uncertain and casual exaltations or depressions, which many consider as certain foretokens of good and evil.

Preface to Shakespeare 2004

Unless we call it sympathy, how shall we define those mysterious premonitions, shadowy warnings, solemn foretokens, that fall upon us now and then as the dew falls upon the grass-leaf, that make our blood to shiver and our flesh to quake, and will not by any means permit themselves to be passed by or nullified?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

And so far were they carried into the admiration thereof, that they thought in the chanceable hitting upon any such verses great foretokens of their following fortunes were placed.

English literary criticism Various

The instant when the _rim_ of the sun comes up bright and red is the instant when our expectation is most kindled toward the glory of the dawn and of the day which it foretokens.

The Writing of the Short Story Lewis Worthington Smith 1906

Interminable strifes and revolutions attest a degree of negro incapacity which foretokens ill for racial administrative discipline and national development.

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion 1901

And this foretokens the permanent enlistment of talent in the public service to the end that democracy may provide that effective nationalism imposed by the new era of world competition.

The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization Samuel Peter Orth 1897

Although fitful, unorganized, and abortive, that wild splutter was one of the foretokens of the impending cataclysm, and was recognized as such by the writer of these pages.

The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

His _Letter on Whitewashing_ is a bit of domestic humor that foretokens the _Danbury News_ man, and his

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

His _Letter on Whitewashing_ is a bit of domestic humor that foretokens the _Danbury News_ man; and his

Initial Studies in American Letters 1886