Swallows herald the summer.

Having scattered the enemy before me and triumphantly returned, this is how they would herald me.

The cockerel, herald of the morning, wakes those of us sleeping.

All the church bells pealed and heralds rode through the town proclaiming the nuptials.

The fireworks display heralds the end of the festival.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale.

Heraldry is more interesting than vexillology.

Mary explained the haiku poem by Shūōshi Mizuhara. “The drumming of the woodpecker,” she wrote, “indicates that it is autumn. The season is drawing to a close, however, as the leaves are already falling swiftly from the trees standing in the meadow — a picture that, accompanied by the drumming of the woodpecker, the industrious herald of autumn, generates a feeling of gloomy loneliness in the face of walks soon to be over. Since the noisy woodpecker is in the foreground of the soundscape, it must be otherwise very still.”

Heraldry is his hobbyhorse: he steers the conversation in that direction whenever he gets the chance.

According to Judaism, Elijah will return to herald the coming of the Messiah.