A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
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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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A second difference of even greater portent was the motif of gathering.
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All his inner being trembled at the portent of his next query.
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Almo's austere celibacy is a portent in our world and altogether marvellous.
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John looked puzzled, not quite understanding the portent of this cryptic saying.
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Or she'll grow into a portent and a peril and a pest.
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It was her Majesty's remedy for that new portent, the revolting daughter.
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The Black Coach had been a death portent, warning of impending doom.
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There was portent in it; things seemed to be closing in.
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The stillness grew in portent; the forest creatures moved more furtively.
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Everyone believed in astrology; the comet of 1680 was regarded as a portent.
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The portent is fulfilled; the Heir of Cerdic is no more.
