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Definition of Harbingers
1. harbinger [v] - See also: harbinger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harbingers
Literary usage of Harbingers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wisdom of the Apocalypse by Joshua Hall McIlvaine (1886)
"XVI THE SIXTH SEAL harbingers OF THE LAST JUDGMENT vi 12-17 When the fifth seal
was opened, we saw the souls of the martyrs under the altar of bloody ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... predict " that good would come out of evil, and that the successes of the
enemy were only harbingers to their final overthrow. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1810)
"This trembling, tott'ring pile — that, now 1 've borne [of life; strength, Leads
to my notice—harbingers of Death. The Gout, with torture, rankles in my ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... Mr. Bentham's philosophy, as the harbingers of a far more extensive change.
It was not, however, till the session of 1843 that the hopes of ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... the constant harbingers appointed by God to go and take possession of those
glorious mansions for them ; and consequently that no man shall ever come to ..."
6. Lands of the Southern Cross: A Visit to South America by Charles Warren Currier (1911)
"The first harbingers of land appeared on Sunday, May 1st, in the shape of a flock
of boobies. They carat, as though to announce that we were approaching the ..."
7. Memoirs of Friedrich Ferdinand, Count Von Beust by Friedrich Ferdinand Beust (1887)
"1870 -THE FIRST harbingers OF A STORM IN THE WEST. I SPOKE in the last chapter
of my misadventure with Berger; I come now to another unfortunate experience ..."
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