The call was urgent, for the conquest of Galicia portended disaster to the Central Empires.
Since 21 March a steady bombardment had been destroying the German wire defences and harassing their back areas, and in the first days of April it rose to the pitch which portended an attack in force.
She had had a dream, she said, about him, which had frightened her excessively, and which she was convinced portended some terrible danger.
He remembered the taunt of the Babylonian on the wall, and it seemed to him that the whole occurrence portended that the time had now arrived when some way might be devised for the capture of the city.
Knowing that this effectportended a dust-storm, and that the present calm would be followed by a hurricane of wind, I rose to go home, intending to secure the shutters.
Clouds had portended rain, and down it came, as it usually did once in every twenty-four hours.
And the ground of the conceit was probably no greater than this, that a fearful animal passing by us portended unto us something to be feared; as upon the like consideration the meeting of a fox presaged some future imposture.
The influences of the planets were supposed to be analogous to their visible peculiarities: Mars, being of a red color, portended fire and slaughter; and the like.
A sense of relief followed, and a light seemed to break forth amidst the gloom--a light that lightened the dark path of life and portended to usher in a new and happier day.
Accordingly, they received the whig lord-lieutenant, Mulgrave, with a tumultuous procession, as if his advent portended the repeal of the union and extinction of tithes.
Others foresaw that a restoration of the Bourbons portended reaction, in its worst sense, throughout all the continent of Europe.
They did not know that daring Southern spies had learned of the meeting of Grant and Sheridan, and Early, judging that it portended a great movement against him, was already consolidating his forces and preparing to meet it.
Dick saw all the signs that portended a great movement, signs with which he had long since grown familiar.
Exert yourself, and follow the guidance of the gods, who portended that this head would be illustrious by having formerly shed a blaze around it.
Some think that he chose this number of officers from that of the birds, which in the augury had portended the kingdom to him.
Many ill-boding eagles wandered about the Capitol uttering cries that portended naught of peace, and an owl hooted there.
Prodigies which portendedthe sovereignty to Severus (chapter 3).
If this was a portent, how serious a calamity must have been portended by a plague which, whether portent or no, was in itself a serious calamity!
Of the statue of Apollo at Cumae, whose tears are supposed to have portended disaster to the Greeks, whom the god was unable to succour.
Hagenbach's looks certainly portended something serious, as he drew forth his nephew's poetic effusion from his coat-pocket, and handed it to the lady with the air of one bringing the worst of news.
It was a sweet, disturbing dream,--a feeling, of which she did not herself know whether it portended woe or bliss.
The waiting-maid began to be anxious and concerned at witnessing these mysterious arrangements, as if theyportended some new calamity.
Astyages thought, therefore, that in sending Mandane there to be the wife of the king, he had taken effectual precautions to guard against the danger portended by his dream.
A love of the real, and not the false, is portended by this dream.
Fine crops is portended for the farmer and wealth for the young.
The opponents of the measure did not conceal their apprehension that the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia portended its overthrow in the States.
He had received news that portended war with Austria; and, cherishing the strange belief that Spain was conquered, he rushed back to Paris to confront the Hapsburg Power.
To an unskilled observer the wide sweep of the glare portended ruin for the French.
Two of the organic articles portended the abolition of the revolutionary calendar.
To the cautious Barclay it portended a triumph long deferred, but sure: while the more impulsive Muscovite looked upon the constant falling back as a national disgrace.
And Muktaphalaketu, still thinking on his sight of her, which was auspicious and portended victory, reached the place where the battle was going on between the gods and Asuras.
He did not pay any attention to the fact, that the astrologers said, that the position of the heavenly bodies at the moment of his departure portended the acquisition of a maiden together with imprisonment.
When he had said this, Agnidatta took occasion to ask him concerning the meaning of moles and other marks; and he told him what moles and other marks portended on every single limb, both in men and women.
Garth on the alert at the change, which portendedhe knew not what explosion of passion in the savage woman's breast, ordered her from Natalie's side.
He was presently alarmed to find the boy growing increasingly numb and drowsy; even he knew what this portended in the North.
He knew what the lowering, wintry cloudsportended on the prairie; and in his heart it was a final farewell that he bade them.
In those blazing days and breathless nights there was an unbroken stillness that portended dire disaster.
But both Russians and Britons had now mustered their forces, and this, the first note sounded of a second terrific and desperately-fought battle, portended success for Britain's gallant army.
The density of the cloud that hung over all portended some direful tragedy.
Astyphilus of Poseidonia, a soothsayer and an intimate friend of Kimon's, told him that it portended his death, on the following grounds.
The others laughed at this, but the soothsayer Theodotus, who was conducting the sacrifice forbad Pyrrhus to swear, saying that Heaven by this portended the death of one of the three kings who were there met together.
She had a freeboard of barely ten inches--a fact that portended wet decks before long.
Fortunately there was little or no wind, and the boat rode the swell without shipping as much as a pailful of water, but both Wakefield and Meredith knew full well that those sullen rollers portended a storm at no distant date.
For a moment I wondered if I had heard aright, or if the sound portended the coming of some servant of the Doctor who was locking up the establishment for the night.
It portended that there was one stone face too many, up at the château.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
