Many bright comets appear without much warning and this unpredictability led to them being regarded as portents of disaster in historic times. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The portent is described with great force and subtlety. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1911 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Is the new design a good portent from the new management team? blog comments powered by Disqus. From Wordnik.com. [Android and Palm coming with new phones : #comments] Reference
Always the portent was a shadow behind their interest and amiability and jealousy. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Legion] Reference
Sound is often a kind of portent; it's a sign that something bad is about to happen. From Wordnik.com. [Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest] Reference
Sans jouir de leur crime, ils en portent la peine. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
It's a portent: Le Cirque isn't quite ready to roll. From Wordnik.com. [Haute Cuisine Heats Up] Reference
A Welsh death-portent often confused with the gwrach. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
And for the reality-challenged, it's a portent of doom. From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of The Great Comet] Reference
But there was something else of ominous portent noticable. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
For the nervous investor it seemed like one more ugly portent. From Wordnik.com. [Make That Boo-Hoo.Com] Reference
Like twin clouds of stormy portent balanced over limpid deeps. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
And, try as I might, I felt it to be a portent and a prophecy. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
And Madge Steele was unable to suggest a single cheerful portent. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
One portent for 1998: "" No hat can be more famous than a crown. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Cuba's Real Religion] Reference
A portent of penalties to come in other triple-play cable offerings?. From Wordnik.com. [Broadband termination fees: Check before you sign up] Reference
Smelly judging or not, winning a Globe is viewed as a powerful portent. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Opportunities] Reference
With all of the ill portent at The Firm, it would be the apogee of foolishness. From Wordnik.com. [s do something with this] Reference
Generally, in these cultural fables, black is a signal — a portent of trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Monster] Reference
Such an ominous portent as that no intelligent Bagabo could be expected to disregard. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
Today those figures increasingly appear to be a fluke, not a portent of a miasmic future. From Wordnik.com. [Winning The War On Smog] Reference
Perhaps the lack of ongoing progress is a result of neglect, and a portent of worse to come. From Wordnik.com. [David Katz, M.D.: Medical Research, Lifestyle Choices and Your Health Destiny] Reference
From the material wreck they passed on to the dire significance which such portent might indicate. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Silence of the young day hung in the palisade, a silence that cut the soul with its tragic portent. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
All this time Messer Cino had his eyes rooted in Selvaggia's, reading her as if she were a portent. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
There may be a worrying portent for BBC executives, who have lost many presenters to ITV over the years. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones to replace Christine Bleakley on The One Show] Reference
This could have been deadly and portentous, and puddles of portent do slop up the going from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [Desperately Seeking Daddy] Reference
The portent of Bushehr's start up for Middle East as a generator of nuclear weapons material appears unlikely. From Wordnik.com. [Bennett Ramberg, Ph.D.: Is Iran's Bushehr Reactor a Weapons Generator, a Hostage, Just Another Power Plant -- or All Three?] Reference
It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Change Predictions Supported By Summer Of Fires, Floods And Heat Waves: IPCC] Reference
Their slowly rising complaint started off as a half-hearted protest but soon gained in volume and unsettling portent. From Wordnik.com. [Barns And Ignobles] Reference
The cold stones were confirmation of his sustained freedom but also, he felt, a portent of his eventual incarceration. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte's Nexus] Reference
This is a grim portent for the 2008 Games, when some 20,000 international journalists are expected to descend on Beijing. From Wordnik.com. [Silent Games] Reference
Threatened cuts to PLR are an alarming portent for authors, but experience suggests that adversity often benefits literature. From Wordnik.com. [How worried are you about Public Lending Right?] Reference
One early portent came in the rampant -- and predictable -- looting that began immediately, and which U.S. forces failed to stop. From Wordnik.com. [At Last] Reference
The cadences, locutions and pauses in their conversation lend an artificiality to what's meant to be an exchange of great portent. From Wordnik.com. [Dreaming With 'Eyes Wide Shut'] Reference
Or did they simply look back on it, after Yu the Great's juggernaut, and point to Hale-Bopp as the portent that forecast their fate?. From Wordnik.com. [When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings] Reference
Dr. Jaime Galvez Tan, vice chancellor for research at the University of the Philippines in Manila, sees that as a troubling portent. From Wordnik.com. [WORKERS FOR THE WORLD] Reference
The kids, Donovan and Beasley, were outstanding and showed boundless energy in both attacking and defending, a good portent for the future. From Wordnik.com. [Mission Accomplished, But ...] Reference
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