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- When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. .… — Bernard Baruch
- Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot… — Agnes de Mille
- The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the… — Winston Churchill
- As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely… — Henry David Thoreau
- There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your… — Gordon B. Hinckley
- .... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never… — Samuel Johnson
- Self-parody is the first portent of age. — Larry McMurtry
- [Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz
- They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot… — Chris Cleave
- Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one.… — Cassandra Clare