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  • But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?†  (source)
  • They stood perplexed before him as if before a dreadful portent.†  (source)
  • Woes, lamentations, mourning, portents dire;†  (source)
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  • Who could have foreseen from it these fearful portents which seemed to threaten violence and discord among the dwellers in The Wilderness?†  (source)
  • Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness; and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures.†  (source)
  • O, what portents are these?†  (source)
  • the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portents preceding it.†  (source)
  • A stillness that is a portent, a gathering, a coming together of something akin to a storm.†  (source)
  • When I feel that resonance, that "fat chord" that feels heavy yet sparkles with promise or portent, it almost always means the phrase, or whatever, is borrowed from somewhere else and promises special significance.†  (source)
  • She told him she couldn't live without him and saw no portent when he told her this was true for him but not for her.†  (source)
  • ON THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 21, 1776, a terrifying storm broke over New York, a storm as vicious as any in living memory, and for those who saw omens in such unleashed fury from the elements—those familiar with the writings of the Roman historian Livy, say, or the plays of Shakespeare, of whom there were many—a night so violent seemed filled with portent.†  (source)
  • Lenny studies them a while, letting the moment draw meaning and portent.†  (source)
  • Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb?  (source)
    portents = signs of things about to happen
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