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A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
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The herald blew his trumpet and shouted that the King was dead.
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A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
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Daffodils are heralds of Spring.
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An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms.
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Rouge Dragon is a herald at the College of Arms.
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A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
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To proclaim or announce an event.
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Daffodils herald the Spring.
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(usually passive) To greet something with excitement; to hail.
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The film was heralded by critics.
A herald sent forward to announce the coming of a king.
The Spartan king Archidamus assembled his army, sent a herald to announce his approach, marched into Attica and besieged Oenoe.
Up to 1915 the southern terminus of the railway was on the Shire river at Port Herald, which place steamers were unable to reach in the dry season owing to insufficient water.
From Beira to Port Herald the railway runs through Portuguese territory, but the Nyasaland Government guaranteed interest for 25 years on the capital (£I,20o,000) of the company which built the Beira-Chindio section.
Acts of political machismo could herald serious danger during the electioneering period.
At this period the college of ephebi was a miniature city; its members called themselves "citizens," and it possessed an archon, strategus, herald and other officials, after the model of ancient Athens.
He soon became an expert compositor, and after a time began to write anonymously for the Herald.
The Rutland Herald, one of the oldest newspapers in Vermont still published, was established as a Federalist weekly in 1794--a daily edition first appeared in 1861, and is now Republican.
In the case of these minor works the attribution to Chastellain is in some cases erroneous, notably in the case of the Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalain, which is the work of Lefebvre de Saint-Remi, herald of the Golden Fleece.
The scorpion, attacking the genitals of the bull, is sent by Ahriman from the lower world to defeat the purpose of the sacrifice; the dog, springing towards the wound in the bull's side, was venerated by the Persians as the companion of Mithras; the serpent is the symbol of the earth being made fertile by drinking the blood of the sacrificial bull; the raven, towards which Mithras turns his face as if for direction, is the herald of the Sun-god, whose bust is near by, and who has ordered the sacrifice; various plants near the bull, and heads of wheat springing from his tail, symbolize the result of the sacrifice; the cypress is perhaps the tree of immortality.
These periodicals were followed by a number of penny weeklies of a lower tone, such as the Family Herald (1843), the London Jpurnal (1845) and Lloyd's Miscellany.
It was dismantled under Henry VIII., but considerable portions remain of the chapel, banqueting hall and herald's tower.
Greeley was now asked by James Gordon Bennett to go into partnership with him in starting The Herald.
Hence in later times he is often represented in art and mythology as a herald.
Sometimes he was represented in his pastoral character, as when he bears a sheep on his shoulders; at other times he appears as the messenger or herald of the gods with the KfpvKEiov, or herald's staff, which is his most frequent attribute.
It was in some ways the herald of a new school of German historical thought, for it shows that idealization of power and success which he had learnt from the teaching of Hegel.
There are three daily newspapers, the Post-Standard (Standard, 1829; Post, 1894; consolidated, 1899, Republican), Journal (1839; daily since 1844, Republican, and Evening Herald (1877), Independent).
On entering upon office the archon (archon eponymus) made proclamation by his herald that he would not interfere with private property.
On the 12th of April 1465 Philip handed over to his son the entire administration of his 1 This was the singular vow known as "the vow of the pheasant," from the fact that Philip placed his hand solemnly on a pheasant, which had been brought to him by his herald, and vowed that he would fight the Turks and challenge their sultan to single combat.
Allen, proprietor of the Newburyport Herald, to learn the trade of a printer.
His skill as a printer won for him the position of foreman, while his ability as a writer was so marked that the editor of the Herald, when temporarily called away from his post, left the paper in his charge.
As this story coincided with the birth (or crucifixion) of Christ it was thought to herald the end of the old world and the beginning of the new.
Although a layman he was granted the prebend of Ilfracombe in 1589, and in 15 9 7 he resigned his position at Westminster on being made Clarencieux king-at-arms, an appointment which caused some ill-feeling, and the York herald, Ralph Brooke, led an attack on the genealogical accuracy of the Britannia, and accused its author of plagiarism.
The only other poet of the New Arcadia who ranks high is Curvo Semedo; but the Dissidents, a name bestowed on those who stood outside the Arcadias, included two distinguished men now to be cited, the second of whom became the herald of a poetical revolution.
The Herald became a weekly in September 1914, and reappeared as a daily in March 1919, its policy being extremist and even Bolshevist.
The chief papers are the Cape Times, Cape Argus, South African News (Bond), both daily and weekly; the Diamond Fields Advertiser (Kimberley) and the Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth).
The principal newspapers are the Courier Journal (Democratic, morning), the Herald (Republican, morning), the Evening Post (Independent Democratic), and the Times (Democratic, evening).
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 he was correspondent of the London Daily News and Graphic, and of the New York Herald.
Mariah's voice is equally angelic on Joy to the World, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, and a properly subdued Silent Night.
The Herald is Scotland's best-selling quality broadsheet newspaper.
Sydney morning Herald - a liberal morning broadsheet also published electronically twice daily with updates.
He also writes a weekly column for The Glasgow Herald.
Comrade Rosemary Byrne thought her election in 2003 would herald a new dawn for socialist politics.
The Catholic Herald currently only carries two inserts per week, ensuring clients have relative exclusivity.
In 1688 he became historiographer Royal and Mowbray herald in 1694.
Peterborough Herald BARRY Fry has been handed a major hammer blow with defensive linchpin Simon Rea facing up to another injury nightmare.
The proposal to ' slope ' the cliffs at the top (often cited in the Sidmouth Herald) seems loopy.
Next, the herald came forward carrying Demodocus ' ringing lyre.
Q Surely the huge success of the BBC's Blue Planet series could herald a revival?
The Bill fails on at least three major ways to herald the end to excessive government secrecy.
It was a tiny snowflake, the first snowflake, the herald of the night.
The clerk was Gregory King, amanuensis to Sir William Dugdale, then on a herald's visitation at Egremont.
Would the dandelion be the herald of spring and the daffodil the pernicious weed?
It closes with the sentence, based on "obstinate" persistency in an illicit cult, and with the proclamation by the herald of the names of the offenders and the penalty.
Though their full style as proclaimed by the herald is "most high, potent and noble prince," and they are included in the Almanach de Gotha, they are not recognized as the equals in blood of the crowned or mediatized dukes of the continent, and the daughter of an English duke marrying a foreign royal prince can only take his title by courtesy, or where, under the "house-laws" of certain families, a family council sanctions the match.
This letter is to the editor of the Boston Herald, enclosing a complete list of the subscribers.
Q Surely the huge success of the BBC 's Blue Planet series could herald a revival?
If there 's any doubt that Rome deserves a triumphant procession to herald its arrival, bear this in mind.
The clerk was Gregory King, amanuensis to Sir William Dugdale, then on a herald 's visitation at Egremont.
Overall, an excellent package and a real gem of a film which will hopefully herald the return of the werewolf genre.
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