| 1. | Summer's harbinger sings, and forebodes to the heart bitter sorrow. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 2. | And lo, wonder of metempsychosis, it is she, the everlasting bride, harbinger of the daystar, the bride, ever virgin. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | As harbingers preceding still the fate. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | The fame anon throughout the town is borne, How Alla king shall come on pilgrimage, By harbingers that wente him beforn, For which the senator, as was usage, Rode him again, and many of his lineage. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |