Being a sailor, he looked on this calm as being ominous presage of a storm.

Such was the aspect under which the Natchez showed themselves, for the first time, to their visitors: it was ominous presage for the future.

"Another ominous presage!" said the Marquise, upon retiring to her apartments.

Some things which happened the very day of his death, and only a little before it, were likewise considered as ominous presages of that event.