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a sign of something about to happen- believes the Golden Globe Awards are portents of the upcoming Academy Awards
portents = signs of things about to happen
- The first, the very first: I found it a splendid portent.Henry James -- The Turn of the Screw
- These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope, They do not point on me.William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- There had been no signs or portents, no secret signals.Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
- Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb?J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Then the plane was overhead, its shadows passing over the open glade, the throbbing reaching its maximum of portent.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents.John Gardner -- Grendel
- And these does she apply for warnings and portents
And evils imminent; and on her knee
Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar - The drive to El Puerto was always a pleasant one, but today it was filled with strange portents.Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
- O, what portents are these?William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1
- The movements of the planets and the mysterious portents they reveal only to those who understand the steps of the celestial dance.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Giants and other portents on the borders of the Shire were forgotten for more important matters:J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
- This departure from truth on the part of a most honest hobbit was a portent of great significance.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
- The dawn is beginning to announce itself, but there is something in the air that belongs to the night. A stillness that is a portent, a gathering, a coming together of something akin to a storm.August Wilson -- The Piano Lesson
- No human being can create new runes, or draw the sort of runes Clary can. Only angels have that power. And since Clary can do that—well, it seems like a portent. Things are changing. The Laws are changing. The old ways may never be the right ways again.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
- But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- Who could have foreseen from it these fearful portents which seemed to threaten violence and discord among the dwellers in The Wilderness?Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Beyond the City
- They stood perplexed before him as if before a dreadful portent.Joseph Conrad -- The Secret Agent
- 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.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portents preceding it.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
portent = a sign of something about to happen
portents = signs of something about to happen
portents = indicators or signs of what was going to happen
portents = signs of things about to happen
portent = a sign of something about to happen
portents = signs of something about to happen
portents = signs of something to come (in Shakespeare's day, more specifically referring to signs indicating the approach of evil or calamity)
portents = signs of things about to happen
portents = signs of something to come (in Shakespeare's day, more specifically referring to signs indicating the approach of evil or calamity)
portents = signs of things about to happen
portents = signs of things about to happen
portent = a sign of something about to happen
portent = a sign of something about to happen
portent = a sign of something about to happen