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It swims around his voice, dislocated and presageful; the opening synth riff sounds as if it's falling apart as it plays.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2013

Her thoughts wandered toward the future, that terra incognita which Mr. Lindsay's vague words—"There are trials ahead of you"—had peopled with dread yet intangible phantoms, whose spectral shadows solemnly presageful, hovered over even the present.

From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

She was a free, happy woman, who, in presageful, blissful trepidation, smiled at the future, and said to each minute, "Stay, stay, for thou art so beautiful!"

From Henry VIII and His Court by Pierce, Henry Niles

From your poor Katherine's chamber, where she droops In sad presageful thoughts, and sighs, and weeps, And seems to pray by turns.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

He was particularly fond of Lemprière’s “Classical Dictionary,” Tooke’s “Pantheon,” and Spence’s “Polymetis”: a line of reading presageful of his own afterwork in the region of Greek mythology.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael