And now a memory was born within my brain: it was that of the cry of the nighthawk which had Harbingered the death of Forsyth!
"The Devil Doctor"
Sax Rohmer
With the approach of evening, in place of that physical contentment which usually heralds the dinner-hour, at sea, I experienced a fit of the seemingly causeless apprehension which too often in the past had Harbingered the coming of grim events; which I had learnt to associate with the nearing presence of one of Fu-Manchu's death-agents.
"The Devil Doctor"
Sax Rohmer