Citations:harbinger

English citations of harbinger

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• 1580, Austin Saker, The Laberynth of Libertie […]‎^[1], page 133:

  Alas, who was this the harbinger of thy heauinesse, and the Pilot of thy Sea trauaile?

• 1630, Thomas Adams, “Meditations vpon Some Part of the Creed”, in The Workes of Tho: Adams […], page 1223:

  Iohn was to be such a harbinger of Iesus, and Zachary shall haue such a harbinger of Iohn.

• 1731, [Roger Flexman?], The Religion of Nature Consider’d […], page 76:

  And what then, I beseech you, could hinder Christianity from making so speedy a Progress, when it was usher’d in by so divine a Harbinger, and this Harbinger so well qualified to make its way through the thickest Crouds, and strongest Oppositions of heathen Theologists?

• 1867, Justus Doolittle, Social Life of the Chinese […], volume 2, page 329:

  The voice of the owl is universally heard with dread, being regarded as the harbinger of death in the neighborhood.

• 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

  It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West.