A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
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.
6 Dreams and hallucinations portending violence increasingly plague Curtis, some of them perhaps even real.
7 Dark clouds travel over the sky, portending rain: a rare phenomenon in these regions.
8 Cutaneous manifestation of MM is an uncommon observation in clinical practice portending poor prognosis.
9 Landing on 20th June near Dublin, he heard news portending a speedy decision in Wexford.
10 Moviegoers liked Never Say Never and Just Go With It, portending good word of mouth.
11 There seemed to be something back of the simple statement-anominous and portending "something."
12 If a woman gives birth to a child with the right nostril lacking, misfortune is portending .
13 In the twilight of his pallid face, his nose looked like a comet portending some public calamity.
14 A comet she seemed, portending a fiery doom to the hearts of many in that presence hall.
15 He was not free, however, from a belief in the significance of dreams as portending important events.
16 It is a pathetic record, portending the final closing of Bermondsey Spa but a few years later.
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