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  • Could that have been some sort of a forewarner that this, in fact, was some sort of infection problem?

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2007 2007

  • "Oh Lord," groaned Jimmy, who had come to regard any elation on Zoie's or Aggie's part as a sure forewarner of ultimate discomfort for him.

    Baby Mine Margaret Mayo 1916

  • "Oh Lord," groaned Jimmy, who had come to regard any elation on Zoie's or Aggie's part as a sure forewarner of ultimate discomfort for him.

    Baby Mine 1911

  • It was the beginning of fever, but he did not know it; it was the forewarner of the death he was choosing.

    The White Sister 1881

  • The early arrival of 300 Bewick swans at the Slimbridge wetlands centre in Gloucestershire is a traditional forewarner of a cold winter.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • “The forewarner of Ellena’s departure; the phantom who decoyed me into the dungeons of Paluzzi; the prophet and the artificer of all my misfortunes.”

    The Italian 2004

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