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Significados de portending em inglês

A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.

Uso de portending em inglês
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Again the door of the inner office closed with a portending click.
Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman
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The ancients ranked this with other celestial phenomena, as portending great events.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 / A Maga...
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Outside, the sky was again dark and cloudy, portending even more rain.
Dear John
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But late in February there was a great bustle, portending movement.
The Tree of Appomattox
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For five minutes he was absent, then returned with a face portending news.
In the Year of Jubilee
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Dreams and hallucinations portending violence increasingly plague Curtis, some of them perhaps even real.
Reuters
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Dark clouds travel over the sky, portending rain: a rare phenomenon in these regions.
The Scalp Hunters
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Cutaneous manifestation of MM is an uncommon observation in clinical practice portending poor prognosis.
Pubmed
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Landing on 20th June near Dublin, he heard news portending a speedy decision in Wexford.
William Pitt and the Great War
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Moviegoers liked Never Say Never and Just Go With It, portending good word of mouth.
Reuters
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There seemed to be something back of the simple statement-anominous and portending "something."
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders; Or, The Underground Search for...
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If a woman gives birth to a child with the right nostril lacking, misfortune is portending.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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In the twilight of his pallid face, his nose looked like a comet portending some public calamity.
Cæsar or Nothing
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A comet she seemed, portending a fiery doom to the hearts of many in that presence hall.
The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
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He was not free, however, from a belief in the significance of dreams as portending important events.
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections)
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It is a pathetic record, portending the final closing of Bermondsey Spa but a few years later.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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