Слово "presage". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

After my first exhibition I was called to all parts of the country to make portraits of houses that were soon to be deserted or debased; indeed, my arrival seemed often to be only a few paces ahead of the auctioneer’s, a presage of doom.

Never did tombs look so ghastly white; never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funereal gloom; never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously; never did bough creak so mysteriously; and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

The chances are that in the interval something will turn up that you would much sooner do and so long a notice presages a large and formal party.

It was only the confirmation of the dark presages which had long gone before.

She had heard that note in men’s voices often enough to know that it presaged a declaration of love.

And Bassompierre was right. The cannonade of the Isle of Re presaged to him the dragonnades of the Cevennes; the taking of La Rochelle was the preface to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.