This statesmanlike beginning of a Crusade, preached, as no Crusade had ever been preached before, in a general council of all Europe, presaged well for its success.
Even friends of the railway presaged that such outlay could not by any possibility be remunerative; but the contrary became evident from the moment the line was opened on the 17th of September 1838.
Their appearance at sea was regarded as a good omen, for although it presaged a tempest, yet it enabled the sailors to steer for a place of safety.
It was a conflict that presaged Vietnam in many of its political motives, military tactics and in its use of toxic defoliants.
Worms were also presaged in science fiction, by Brunners 1975 novel The Shockwave Rider.