"Presager" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Phlegethon, his head "Feather'd appears, with beak, and monstrous eyes; "Spoil'd of his shape, with yellow feathers cloth'd: "Large grows his head; bent are his lengthen'd nails; "Scarcely he moves the pinions which are shot "Light from his lazy arms. A filthy bird "Becoming;—constant presager of woe; "An owl ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid |
