Portent

Is the new design a good portent from the new management team? blog comments powered by Disqus ❋ Unknown (2008)

The portent is described with great force and subtlety. ❋ Unknown (1911)

"And who shall say," Abraham asked, looking from face to face, "that it's not a portent from the heavens that we shall find the Way of the Spices? ❋ Unknown (1930)

Always the portent was a shadow behind their interest and amiability and jealousy. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)

Saurid, being convinced by his priests, astrologers and soothsayers that the portent was a true one, became from that time possessed of one idea, which was that the vast learning of Egypt, its sciences, discoveries and strange traditions should not be lost, -- and that the exploits and achievements of those who were great and famous in the land should be so recorded as never to be forgotten. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

STRANGER: There did really happen, and will again happen, like many other events of which ancient tradition has preserved the record, the portent which is traditionally said to have occurred in the quarrel of Atreus and Thyestes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She was struck by how accurately the Sister had hit upon the peculiar, uneasy feeling she was havinga kind of portent to doom, yet without definable cause, that made the fine hairs at the back of her neck stand on end like when she would be lying in her bedroll, almost asleep, and every insect, all at once, went silent. ❋ Goodkind, Terry (2001)

This incident at Walker's Point when a freak storm destroyed his mildly ancestral home in Kennebunkport was almost a kind of portent of what was to come. ❋ Unknown (1993)

If we glance over the latter part of the book of prodigies, compiled by the otherwise unknown writer Julius Obsequens from the records of the pontifices quoted in Livy's history, we can get a fair idea of the kind of portent that was troubling the popular mind. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

He told himself that it was a silly piece of superstition; but, all the same, a strange feeling troubled him; and it seemed as if the fall of these old mementoes of the gallant officer, his dead father, was a kind of portent of trouble to come -- trouble and disaster that would be brought about by his cousin. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Sound is often a kind of portent; it's a sign that something bad is about to happen. ❋ Geeta Dayal (2010)

If the White House throws everything it has at it, including ACORNs, and the Republicans win anyway, it will be the same kind of portent that we saw when the Democrats were losing special elections in ❋ Unknown (2009)

"It is a great deal that soothsayers and bonzes, who are so much opposed to us, should speak so in our favor; but the Lord can do much greater things, and as it seems that the portent is His work, ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

a sudden shock, with many an accompanying "portent" and "sign" that caused the superstitious Florentines to shake their heads in dismay, came the news that Lorenzo the Magnificent was dead. ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)

It was a portent of the survivor skills that would serve him well over the next decade. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

Then suppose there appears on this earth a prodigy, a portent, or what is alleged to be a portent. ❋ Superversive (2010)

This is a hopeful portent, but the vacuum of legitimacy remains. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The news will be an unwelcome portent for more vulnerable retailers that don't have Next's well-developed online offering to counteract a slump in high-street sales. ❋ Kathy Gordon (2012)

In a portent of the dominance that Cheney would wield over policy making in the Bush administration, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice only found out about this decision after Bush and Cheney had met for their weekly private lunch on November 13, during which Cheney had given the president the four-page text of the detention directive to sign. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)