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It was not long before the press-agents of the dumb presager found a romancer willing to undertake the task that Defoe neglected.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie

A filthy bird “Becoming;—constant presager of woe; “An owl inactive; omen dire to man.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

And one conspirator leaped up Amid the clash of tinkling spoons And poured into a protose cup His helping of stewed prunes; And, blood-red presager of doom, Half a tomato hissed across the room.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 by Various