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Updated: June 15, 2025
He heard Trevison catch his breath shrilling it into his lungs in one great sob and then he stood, white and shaking, beside the desk, looking at Trevison as the young man went out of the door a laugh on his lips, mirthless, bitter, portending trouble and violence. Corrigan was sitting at his desk in the bank building when Trevison entered the front door.
It seemed as if the poor prisoner was unaccustomed to walk on God's earth. It was the 15th of August, about eleven o'clock at night; thick clouds, portending a tempest, overspread the heavens, and shrouded every light and prospect underneath their heavy folds.
A delicate flush responded in the east, and rose to meet the denser crimson of the west; a few clouds, incomparably light and diaphanous, bathed themselves in the glow. It was a summer sunset, portending for the land a morrow of great heat.
He had had practically no sleep the night previous, or, for that matter, for the two nights before that again, and he was not going to get any chance to make it up now. A distant echo of his name from somewhere up the sap brought a swift awakening. It was an evil omen, portending the worst fatigue. He decided to follow the lazy course of action, namely, to avoid it if possible. "Mac!
"Well but we mustn't let ourselves get excited," soothed Baumberger, the shadow of him falling darkly upon Peaceful and Phoebe as he strode along, upon the side next the sun. Peppajee would have called that an evil thing, portending much trouble and black treachery. "That's where people always blunder in a thing like this. A little cool-headedness goes farther than hard words or lead.
Yet it was a different life. Gatun had changed. Even her concrete light-house was winking all night now up among the I. C. C. dwellings. The breeze from off the Caribbean was heavy and lifeless. The landscape looked wet and lush and rampant, of a deep-seated green, and instead of the china-blue skies the dull, leaden-gray heavens seemed to hang low and heavy overhead, like a portending fate.
The list of peculiarities occurring in the case of babes continues as follows: If a woman gives birth to a child whose mouth is shaped like a bird's, the country will be stirred up. If a woman gives birth to a child without any mouth, the mistress of the house will die. If a woman gives birth to a child with the right nostril lacking, misfortune is portending.
The darkness of the night had set in; but it was relieved by a somewhat faint and mist-clad moon, and some few and scattered stars, over which rolled, fleetly, thick clouds, portending rain.
such a gift or benefit can never finish or terminate in wrath and indignation without portending some unlucky fate and most disastrous fortune to ensue.
However, Fate, which mocks our most cherished hopes, ordained that on arriving at Mauleverer Park the owner should be suddenly afflicted with a loss of appetite, a coldness in the limbs, a pain in the chest, and various other ungracious symptoms of portending malady. Lord Mauleverer went straight to bed; be remained there for some days, and when he recovered his physicians ordered him to Bath.
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