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portentous
1. I don’t know how long I stay there, at one with the roughness of the elements but, as the clouds gradually become darker and darker, portentous of worsening weather, I do the sensible thing and go below
2. When she saw the portentous expression on his face, like a child waiting for the Magician to pluck fire from the air, she couldn't contain herself, and burst out laughing, dumping the exercise books on the floor and falling back on the sofa
3. Teresa loved running in the chilly air, the feeling of something portentous about to happen
4. It exhibits the most portentous palettes on the face of the earth that elicit from tourists the deeply felt sigh “I wish I were a painter”
5. I had not yet discovered the mysteries of love, nor traveled to the distant lands of Egypt with its fascinating pyramids and its enigmatic mummies, nor walked by the powerful ruins of Machu Picchu, nor seen the portentous skies of Bogota, nor navigated through the narrow gorges of Venice, or visited the giant cathedrals in Madrid or the glimmering white towers of the Taj Mahal, nor the sumptuous waterfall Angel Fall, nor perceived the subtle aroma of the Dutch tulips, nor tasted a faint taste of the Swiss delicacies, nor the French pastries, nor the Mexican toasts
6. Without further ado, I took the helpless creature and climbing the stairs I shed it in the orange patio; but after that I had my regrets, considering the storm which had unleashed on the outskirts and portentous rays and sparks that gave light to the night face; but at the end I was happy thinking that the frog would not be obstructed for these small inconveniences; taking into account that had saved his life and still retained all of his limbs
7. They then returned to the kitchen, to the ritual of the dinner, and it was not until nine o'clock in the evening, when the portentous steps, already tired for the sake of the tasks, crawling solemn up to the quiet bedding with a sound that was more like a click
8. After a portentous clearing of throat and without introduction, he launched into his reading
9. While he would rub Amaranta Úrsula’s erect breasts with egg whites or smooth her elastic thighs and peach-like stomach with cocoa butter, she would play with Aureliano’s portentous creature as if it were a doll and would paint clown’s eyes on it with her lipstick and give it a Turk’s mustache with her eyebrow pencil, and would put on organza bow ties and little tinfoil hats
10. It was one of those portentous moments that physical beings, locked within the boundaries of time, think about only in hindsight
11. That he had done so was very clear from Lady Shuttleworth's portentous remarks, for it was not in human nature for a woman to be thus solemn about the wasted emotions of other people's sons
12. If the insanity of that night had ended with merely this portentous
13. concentrated string of other unique (and portentous) celestial and astrological alignments, there were
14. If indeed the arterial hue of the door was portentous, then what waited beyond it was the apocalypse its assurance stood purpose for
15. The more it is examined, the more portentous it grows…Not much wonder that infidels are manufactured out of the doctrine of endless misery
16. ’ The history of the miraculous conception, with which Matthew begins his gospel, was a trifle in comparison with this portentous declaration with which John commences his
17. just was my invincible stupidity, or rather portentous innocence, that I
18. From his girdle hung a row of seastones which jangled at every movement of his portentous frame and on these were graven with rude yet striking art the tribal images of many Irish heroes and heroines of antiquity, Cuchulin, Conn of hundred battles, Niall of nine hostages, Brian of Kincora, the ardri Malachi, Art MacMurragh, Shane O'Neill, Father John Murphy, Owen Roe, Patrick Sarsfield, Red Hugh O'Donnell, Red Jim MacDermott, Soggarth Eoghan O'Growney, Michael Dwyer, Francy Higgins, Henry Joy M'Cracken, Goliath, Horace Wheatley, Thomas Conneff, Peg Woffington, the Village Blacksmith, Captain Moonlight, Captain Boycott, Dante Alighieri, Christopher Columbus, S
19. There was something charmingly cordial and engaging in the manner in which after saying "Now, Handel," as if it were the grave beginning of a portentous business exordium, he had suddenly given up that tone, stretched out his honest hand, and spoken like a schoolboy
20. As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March from the ball-
21. Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade
22. Grose herself, and that she wanted, by just so much as she did thus see, to make me suppose she didn't, and at the same time, without showing anything, arrive at a guess as to whether I myself did! It was a pity that I needed once more to describe the portentous little activity by which she sought to divert my attention—the perceptible increase of movement, the greater intensity of play, the singing, the gabbling of nonsense, and the invitation to romp
23. No evening I had passed at Bly had the portentous quality of this one; in spite of which—and in spite also of the deeper depths of consternation that had opened beneath my feet—there was literally, in the ebbing actual, an extraordinarily sweet sadness
24. spreading fingers with a portentous fan
25. They sat on boxes and clasped their knees and bent portentous looks at the walls
26. Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox
27. This order only served to increase the overwhelming, almost panic terror which suddenly came upon our local authorities and the society of the town, till then so persistently frivolous in its attitude, on the discovery of the mysterious and portentous murder of the student Shatov—the climax of the long series of senseless actions in our midst—as well as the extremely mysterious circumstances that accompanied that murder
28. A French actress in English! Could anything be more unusual? Sarah Bernhardt, who has been cavorting around the English-speaking world for portentous yet vulgar fractions of a century, never managed to acquire even a suspicion of English; Rêjane, who has done London and New York pretty thoroughly, would have an artistic fit at the idea of juggling with English, at her time of life; Jane Hading, Jeanne Granier and others are quite willing to play anywhere, but it must be in French
29. The bell was answered by the butler, who looked portentous and stood resolutely in the doorway
30. Such is the amazing, the portentous problem which Christianity and civilization have to face in Africa, and to which neither of them seems as yet half awake