Examples of using "Présage" in a sentence and their english translations:
What does this news augur?
- This does not bode well.
- That does not bode well.
- His laziness boded ill for the future.
- His laziness was a bad omen for the future.
Is the sunset a good omen?
That does not bode well.
That does not augur well for the rest of our dialogue.
This does not bode well.
This is looking pretty grim. I don't know if this was the best choice.
I always thought that suffering a heart attack was an omen of death.
This wind is a sign of a storm.
They all interpreted the presence of that owl as an ominous premonition.
- This does not bode well.
- That does not bode well.
Much-musing, to the woodland nymphs I pray, / and Mars, the guardian of the Thracian plain, / with favouring grace the omen to allay, / and bless the dreadful vision.
"Now, now," he cries, "no tarrying; wheresoe'er / ye point the path, I follow and am there. / Gods of my fathers! O preserve to-day / my home, preserve my grandchild; for your care / is Troy, and yours this omen. I obey; / lead on, my son, I yield and follow on thy way."
"Nay, when thy vessels, ranged upon her shore, / rest from the deep, and on the beach ye light / the votive altars, and the gods adore, / veil then thy locks, with purple hood bedight, / and shroud thy visage from a foeman's sight, / lest hostile presence, 'mid the flames divine, / break in, and mar the omen and the rite."
"'Tis war thou bringest us," Anchises cries, / strange land! For war the mettled steed they train, / and war these threaten. Yet in time again / these beasts are wont in harness to obey, / and bear the yoke, as guided by the rein. / Peace yet is hopeful."