A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
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I decided to take that as a good omen and kept walking.
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Adeline turned pale; and Mortimer himself shuddered as he beheld the omen.
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It is a bad omen to wet the foot in these springs.
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This is a good omen for the release of her next project.
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The whelp, as an omen of evil, is mentioned in the Edda.
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I simply trudged behind him as my sense of grim foreboding grew.
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Tiaan kept on, following his directions with an increasing sense of foreboding.
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This year the sense of foreboding was made worse by the weather.
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It was invariably cold, damp, gloomy and foreboding, particularly for the opposition.
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He was living very much in the present-anugly and foreboding present.
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The Irish Times saw the event as a portent of better times:
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Neither brother had expected a moment so fraught, so heady with portent.
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The sun-star exhibited a golden halo of ice crystals, portent of change.
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It was nothing less than a portent of what was to come.
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On the other hand, to Thyrsis he was a portent of terror.
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Such gayety; such jokes; such bravado; and augury of the to be!
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The whole scene was of evil augury for the defence of Paris.
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This was not a happy augury for the head of the family.
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Romulus had raised the first body with the customary ceremony of augury.
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They defy critical augury, in their unending quest of beauty and truth.
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Again the door of the inner office closed with a portending click.
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The ancients ranked this with other celestial phenomena, as portending great events.
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Outside, the sky was again dark and cloudy, portending even more rain.
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But late in February there was a great bustle, portending movement.
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For five minutes he was absent, then returned with a face portending news.
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She stayed very still with her eyes open wide, filled with forboding.
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Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream forboding things to come.
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It is complete statistical nonsense that sounds forboding but is absolutely and entirely meaningless.
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She dreaded to open the letter, for a strange forboding of evil came over her.
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A sense of forboding washed over her.
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The abode of the gods; The conditioned promise of godhood in Man.
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The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.
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And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.
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The young bridegroom abode in the palace one hundred and one weeks.
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And there abode no more but the trunk only in the place.
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Ms Cash was described in court documents as having no fixed abode.
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Each of the four elements had its own abode in the universe.
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Perhaps it was the light in some window of a secret abode.
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This led us to believe that the kitchen was her usual abode.
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The once happy home was now the abode of misery and suffering.
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For we are in the abode of life that goes before life.
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Their habitation is the Fire, and hapless the abode of the wrong-doers.
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Our first thought in the morning was to examine our new abode.
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In this Ice-house the governor of Illyria now took up his abode.
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There was one under my own abode; certainly I would explore it.
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That to the left leads to Tartarus, the abode of the wicked.
