Portents
[pɔ:,tents]
Examples
- Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus--Jewish antiquities--oh dear! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Rough portents had met him on his first admission to Fieldhead; but that passage got over, charming and fascinating he resolved to be. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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