portent

Next time, however, he must make certain to have some physical evidence of a portent.

It is a small matter; and yet how full of portent!

His mother would have said it was a portent, a sign.

Even in 1938, this last year before war, there are portents of the world to come.

Then she'd begun to see they were portents of the future.

Perhaps the failure was a portent of things to come.

Then, all we need do is wait for the stars and portents to fall into place.

Boring, in other words, may not be a portent of good times to come.

The signs and portents were clear: the hour was at hand.

The portents, while still short of being disastrous, are not good.

The last few years, however, have been full of troubling portents.

I do not see signs and portents in the sky.

For a second or two, he let it hang there, a portent of change.

It is said there will be great signs and portents of his coming.

There may have been worse portents of quality than this, but not many.

"Read the signs and portents first," he had often told me.

"Do you suppose it might be a portent of some kind?"

Yet her portent was so significant it moved him profoundly.

No, there had been more to that portent than revenge.

I think that is my role now the portents walk abroad.

The heart sinks under the weight of all that portent.

I'm not getting any portents, one way or another, which means the situation is still in flux.

He leaned in towards him, his voice full of portent.

There is a serious danger of reading too much future portent into this.

It could hardly have been a better portent of spring for the store.