Foretouch

Is it progress at all, or is it retrogression, is it light or darkness, is it civilization or a foretouch of the disrupting force of intellectual anarchy and moral decay?

It was as if something of the Beyond unrolled itself in exquisite promise and foretouch; as if great gates were open, through which one day - into which this day was transfiguring - they might sail in to an eternal blessedness.

There was a foretouch of death in the thought.

A foretouch of future shadows fell on them when they heard of Noel and Gregor MacLean having joined the London Scottish.

In the middle distance a tall white skyscraper stood up, a prelude, or a foretouch to a great yellowish black cloud behind it.

I felt its foretouch.