A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
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Examples for "abode"
Examples for "abode"
1The abode of the gods; The conditioned promise of godhood in Man.
2The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.
3And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.
4The young bridegroom abode in the palace one hundred and one weeks.
5And there abode no more but the trunk only in the place.
1I decided to take that as a good omen and kept walking.
2Adeline turned pale; and Mortimer himself shuddered as he beheld the omen.
3It is a bad omen to wet the foot in these springs.
4This is a good omen for the release of her next project.
5The whelp, as an omen of evil, is mentioned in the Edda.
1I simply trudged behind him as my sense of grim foreboding grew.
2Tiaan kept on, following his directions with an increasing sense of foreboding.
3This year the sense of foreboding was made worse by the weather.
4It was invariably cold, damp, gloomy and foreboding, particularly for the opposition.
5He was living very much in the present-anugly and foreboding present.
1The Irish Times saw the event as a portent of better times:
2Neither brother had expected a moment so fraught, so heady with portent.
3The sun-star exhibited a golden halo of ice crystals, portent of change.
4It was nothing less than a portent of what was to come.
5On the other hand, to Thyrsis he was a portent of terror.
1Such gayety; such jokes; such bravado; and augury of the to be!
2The whole scene was of evil augury for the defence of Paris.
3This was not a happy augury for the head of the family.
4Romulus had raised the first body with the customary ceremony of augury.
5They defy critical augury, in their unending quest of beauty and truth.
1Again the door of the inner office closed with a portending click.
2The ancients ranked this with other celestial phenomena, as portending great events.
3Outside, the sky was again dark and cloudy, portending even more rain.
4But late in February there was a great bustle, portending movement.
5For five minutes he was absent, then returned with a face portending news.
1She stayed very still with her eyes open wide, filled with forboding.
2Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream forboding things to come.
3It is complete statistical nonsense that sounds forboding but is absolutely and entirely meaningless.
4She dreaded to open the letter, for a strange forboding of evil came over her.
5A sense of forboding washed over her.