"Prognostic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our horizon, all our wishes were concentrated in this one, that we might escape the desolation of the storm. This treaty, like a rainbow on the edge of the cloud, marked to our eyes the space where it was raging, and afforded, at the same time, the sure prognostic of fair weather. If we reject it the vivid colors will grow pale; it will be a baleful ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing
... — N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign &c (indication) 550; harbinger &c (precursor) 64; yule candle^. bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning &c 668. prefigurement &c 511. Adj. ill-boding. Phr. auspicium ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
