"Precursory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... efforts. In presence of so many enemies, concealed or declared—compelled to regulate so many affairs, the government, oppression, and conquest of so many races— Napoleon, on returning to Paris after his Spanish campaign, had found men's dispositions changed, and precursory signs of an open discontent which he was not accustomed to meet ...
— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt |
