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