The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. From LearnThat.org. [www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/billveeck371687.html]
I have to say I've never been called a harbinger before. From Wordnik.com. [An Abundance of Spring Music in the Air] Reference
In some ways, they said, the midterms were not as bleak a harbinger as some Democrats fear. From Wordnik.com. ['Soul-searching' Obama aides: Democrats' midterm election losses a wake-up call] Reference
In general mysticism, it has been called the harbinger of Enlightnment, which is the second stage. From Wordnik.com. [SYNTAGMA] Reference
Was the bird some kind of harbinger, trained to speak over the dead?. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Do you think that ` s any kind of harbinger of success for him in America and bringing fans in?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2007] Reference
In recent years, a new kind of harbinger of the season has blossomed on the sidewalks of Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [Doin' the Downward Doggie] Reference
I find it interesting that I used the word "harbinger" in two entries almost exactly four years apart. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
An early "harbinger" uptick in inflation instability is also marked on the chart that peaks between 2001 and 2002. From Wordnik.com. [Energy Bulletin -] Reference
It is best picture this year by a mile, and its tragedy is a kind of harbinger of what may be a century of tragedies for the USA. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
They were also the harbinger of a more widespread malaise. From Wordnik.com. [How to Save Democracy] Reference
Is Huckabee's success there a harbinger of things to come?. From Wordnik.com. ['This Is Not a Bluff'] Reference
The dot-com debacle may simply be a harbinger of a bigger problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Gathering Tech Carnage] Reference
They point to the bloody history of the last century as a harbinger. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Worry, Be Happy] Reference
If only the first day of August was a harbinger of the weather to come. From Wordnik.com. [Forecast: Heating up; showers around & about] Reference
And what about people worrying that a runny nose is a harbinger of doom?. From Wordnik.com. [Should We Panic?] Reference
The "Trippi" e-mail perhaps is a harbinger of Net-based subterfuge to come. From Wordnik.com. [GRINS AND GRENADES] Reference
That attitude is surprisingly prevalent, in itself a harbinger of worse to come. From Wordnik.com. [A Social 'Neutron Bomb'] Reference
Many saw it as a harbinger of the decline of the West, particularly the United States. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
We can only hope that the tragedy now unfolding in the former Yugoslavia is not a harbinger. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangerous Power Vacuum] Reference
Deffeyes is an idiosyncratic harbinger of the end of the oil era, but he is not the only one. From Wordnik.com. [The Energy Squeeze] Reference
The historically low turnout in last month's European elections was a harbinger of worse to come. From Wordnik.com. [A MATTER OF PUBLIC TRUST] Reference
In only a few months, this squib of tiny print has become the harbinger of the new era at the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Supreme Conservatism] Reference
So far it's nothing serious -- but it could be a harbinger of Iraq's chaos spilling into the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [THE DEVIL YOU THINK YOU KNOW] Reference
But the 19-year-old woman was wrong: the sound was not a harbinger of hope, but a prelude to apocalypse. From Wordnik.com. [Fields Of Death] Reference
What's happening in New Hampshire is more a harbinger of things to come than most would like to believe. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: The Price Of Politics] Reference
This last image is a bizarre harbinger of the death camps 20 years later, with their harvest of gold teeth. From Wordnik.com. [T.S. Eliot And The Jews] Reference
And their emergence could be the harbinger of charisma-rich politics -- a Blair specialty -- in the region. From Wordnik.com. [THE FAB BLAIR BOYS] Reference
Like a chill wind at the end of summer, the Iowa results were a harbinger of the harsh political winter to come. From Wordnik.com. [Dole's Dilemma] Reference
As such, it is a harbinger of the kind of national-security challenge the United States will confront this century. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakest Link] Reference
More significant, it proved to be the harbinger of the Bosnian war, in which at least 200,000 civilians were killed. From Wordnik.com. [Why Milosevic Matters] Reference
As both the oldest and fastest-aging industrial society in the world, Japan may be a good harbinger of what's to come. From Wordnik.com. [Young At Heart] Reference
This case may be a harbinger of the growing role courts will play in deciding the future of old-line U.S. manufacturing. From Wordnik.com. [Players to Watch in 2006] Reference
In an arrangement that was in some ways a harbinger of AOL Time Warner, the two companies are 50-50 partners in AOL Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Decisions Ahead] Reference
Charles and Camilla had never appeared together at so public an event, and many viewed it as a harbinger of waltzes to come. From Wordnik.com. [So Much For Camilla] Reference
Scant minutes into the game she was startled by the ringing phone — given the hour, a harbinger, she suspected, of bad news. From Wordnik.com. [The First Cup is the Deepest] Reference
It was touching, but, in retrospect, a harbinger of his angry reaction to his loss in Iowa -- a fateful moment to say the least. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Dissecting Howard Dean's Implosion] Reference
Davos haters and the sirens of the end of capitalism see the move of Europe's politics into the streets as the harbinger of regime change. From Wordnik.com. [Beware the European Street] Reference
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