The eve of that day was a happy bed-time; but over his ardent reveries, over the vista of future achievements, there suddenly, darkly loomed another thought, a foretoken and clammy shroud, which smote the young prince with trembling.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
"At length, a glimmer of light appeared, which we imagined to be rather the foretoken of an approaching burst of flames, as in truth it was, than the return of day.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
For, as before the Conquest, they misliked nothing more in King Edward the Confessor, than that he was Frenchified, and accounted the desire of a foreign language then to be a foretoken of the bringing in of foreign powers, which indeed happened."
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham