As each took his turn interpreting theportents revealed by my striped sweater, the other would say, "Call the doctor if you're so worried.
The ancient Moorish chroniclers relate many awful portents and strange and mysterious visions, which appeared to the commanders of either army during this anxious night.
He called to his mind the various portents and prophecies which had forerun their present danger.
He received Alahor with a gloomy and sinister aspect; pretending to have discovered fearful portents in the heavens, and to have had strange dreams and mystic visions.
He now revealed to the count certain signs and portents which would take place during battle.
Knowest thou of my long watching, and the dark portents of the stars?
He learns that some sounds are portents of anger and punishment; still others of satisfaction and pleasure.
We have already referred to the account given by Josephus of the portents which were supposed to announce the coming destruction of the Holy City, amongst which were a star shaped like a sword, a comet, and other celestial phenomena.
The Jewish historian gives a serious account of the preternatural portents which warned the Jews of the approaching fall of Jerusalem, and he laments the infatuation of the people, who disregarded these Divine denunciations.
The ignorant considered some of these events good omens, but the priests interpreted them as portents of evil.
Such spectacles as eclipses and comets were universally regarded as awful portents of impending evil, signs of God's anger, and forerunners of national calamities.
This demise of Agrippa was not only a private loss to his own household, but a public loss to all the Romans, as was shown by the fact that portents occurred on this occasion as great as were usually seen before the most tremendous disasters.
They were mumbling and crooning hate-songs, and pointing with skinny fingers to the portents in the sky.
Rebellion everywhere, everywhere the servant risen against the master, everywhere our spells and portents broken.
I am not aware that any portents preceded my arrival in this world, but, in my childhood, I remember hearing a traditional account of the manner in which I lost the chance of an endowment of great practical value.
These were the portents which he encountered in person, but before the whole capital others had occurred both that year and a short time previously.
For a season Milo served as a shield for their abuses and assassinations, but about this time some portents occurred.
And when the winter set in,[62] in which Gnaeus Calvinus and Valerius Messala became consuls, many portents occurred even in Rome itself.
All this contributed to the Romans' joy, but they were quite disturbed at the portents of that year.
These portents appeared in advance,--an image, as it were, of what should befall the people both on land and on water.
These portents so revealed by supernatural power disturbed them; and their fear was augmented by the very appearance of the city, which had been strange and unaccustomed at the beginning of the month and thereafter for a long time.
But the day of portents was not slow in its approach--a stirring age pressed on, an age for books.
If nature by her portents foreshadow coming ills I am not besmirched therewith.
But who can number the multitude ofportents recorded in profane histories?
For we say that all portents are contrary to nature; but they are not so.
He shows historically that there is no reason to regard comets as portents of earthly evils.
In the history of the Caesars occur portents of all three kinds; for at the death of Julius the earth was shrouded in darkness, the birth of Augustus was heralded by a star, and the downfall of Nero by a comet.
Even if there were anything less scurrilous in the book, it need not concern us any more than the portents of the Egyptians, who invoked snakes and cats.
This command, however, over natural portents may be viewed as part of a general dominion over nature, of which the most varied manifestation is in Minerva.
They have a power of making revelations to men, through signs or portents significant of the future.
There is also a Life in hexameter verse, written by a grammarian named Phocas, about one half of which is devoted to an account of the marvellous portents that were alleged to have accompanied the birth of the poet.
The fabulous portents of legendary times appear in the shape of the Harpies, the Cyclops, the sea-monster Scylla, etc.
The issue of all these portents appeared in the second great battle in which Roman blood fattened the Macedonian plains.
Lastly, Cardan had in readiness one of his favourite portents to lay before the Court.
What better account could you expect, he asks, of a man who put faith in dreams and portents and auguries; who believed fully in the utterances of crazy beldames, who saw ghosts, and who believed he was attended by a familiar demon?
While he was in prison in the month of October some mysterious knockings at the door supplied him with a fulfilment and explanation of the portents lately chronicled.
In this brief season of ease and security, there were no flaming portents in the sky to foretell the cruel stroke of evil fortune which was destined so soon to fall upon him.
In his later writings there are farther indications that he was wont to conjure up omens and portents chiefly at those times when he was in danger and mental distress.
Terrified by adverse portents the Roman Senate instructed the old poet Livius Andronicus to write a hymn in honour of Juno and to train a chorus of youths and maidens to sing it.
At every stage signs and portentswere vouchsafed by the guardian deities.
The sober and unexaggerated narrative of that history would have been accepted, less only the miraculous portents which accompany it.
Several of the priests did not hesitate to assert that their supplications had elicited signs and portents indicating supernatural aid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
