Thus came the jocund Spring in Killingworth, In fabulous day; some hundred years ago; And thrifty farmers, as they tilled the earth, Heard with alarm the cawing of the crow, That mingled with the universal mirth, Cassandra-like, Prognosticating woe; They shook their heads, and doomed with dreadful words To swift destruction the whole race of birds.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To be sure, no Prognosticating symptoms of these things have as yet appeared,-nothing even resembling their beginnings.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
He well knows two things: first, that no wise or honest man can approve of that partition, or can contemplate it without Prognosticating great mischief from it to all countries at some future time; secondly, he knows quite as well, that, let our opinions on that partition be what they will, England, by itself, is not in a situation to afford to Poland any assistance whatsoever.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke