Sentence:  Filled with these <WSD>foretales</WSD> of gloom, I climbed back up the cliff with Yates to the Nissen hut to join him and Stagg for examination of the incoming Friday charts. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An account or telling given as an introduction to a larger body of work; prologue; a prior or previous recollection or account of events