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Definition of the day : « portent »
- noun indication, forewarning
- noun miracle
- It was the hush of portent, the hush of watchfulness, the hush of a threatening tension.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.
- Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
- The silence without was only portent of the storm so soon to burst.
- Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King
- It was because he was a failure in literature that he became a portent in English history.
- Extract from : « The Napoleon of Notting Hill » by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- And, try as I might, I felt it to be a portent and a prophecy.
- Extract from : « Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison » by Austin Biron Bidwell
- The Impending Crisis was a portent and an impulse of the coming catastrophe.
- Extract from : « The Negro and the Nation » by George S. Merriam
- Detached, no portion of the ritual had meaning; its portent lay in the whole.
- Extract from : « The Orchard of Tears » by Sax Rohmer
- They didn't receive it, but by his theory the portent was only the stronger.
- Extract from : « Some Short Stories » by Henry James
- The sea has a greasy look and this heavy ground swell is a portent.
- Extract from : « Blackbeard: Buccaneer » by Ralph D. Paine
- But for that portent, whatever it boded, she might have been not my wife but his.
- Extract from : « Grim Tales » by Edith Nesbit