She had been so full of the anticipation of some kind of misfortune all the morning that she felt now as if this was the very Precursive circumstance she had been expecting; she stood up, turning quite white, and, pointing with her finger, said,- 'There he is!
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Now Love and Hymen wave their torches high, Precursive of their joys: each hearth is heap'd With odorous incense: every roof is hung With flowery garlands: pipes, and harps, and lyres, And songs which indicate their festive souls, Resound aloud.
"The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II"
Ovid
Here was the irregular preparation, the hidden process, which suddenly burst into light and manifested itself with an exuberance of energy, that passed to the man himself for an inward revolution with no Precursive sign.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley