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Former diplomat, foreign minister, prodigious linguist, including Russian learned on military service.
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And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
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He arrived in Chicago in time for the prodigious procession of welcome.
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The essentially abandoned children are inarticulate and given to prodigious drug use.
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The result on the audience was prodigious; Mr. Blyth alone sat unmoved.
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But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history.
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The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
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The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous.
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But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
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Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
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Tea was brought in by portentous, powdered footmen in scarlet and gold.
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That would be the most portentous, the most awe-inspiring event in history.
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The portentous tone of the Frenchman's words was born of bitter experience.
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Perhaps because I'm more portentous than they are, she said, and smiled.
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The dinner had portentous suggestiveness; the Leidchardt'stonians were at first rather difficult.
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Anthony Hopkin's Odin also returns to deliver yet more portentous fatherly wisdom.
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Black clouds hung in huge, portentous masses over, the vault of heaven.
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There was something heavy, portentous, in the air of this June evening.
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The amount of reading that has gone to it is almost portentous.
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The opening is portentous and soon becomes a driving whirlwind of tone.
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This is true, and it is what makes the present situation portentous.
