It is supposed by many to portend an alliance, offensive and defensive, between the King of Central and the Philosopher of Printing-House Square. FROM ERIE.

Among these may be included the plum, cherry, withered roses, walnut, hemp, cypress, dandelion, &c. Beans are still said to produce bad dreams and to portend evil; and according to a Leicestershire saying, "If you wish for awful dreams or desire to go crazy, sleep in a bean-field all night."

One reason, perhaps, for the attention so universally paid to the moon's changes in agricultural pursuits is, writes Mr. Farrer, "that they are far more remarkable than any of the sun's, and more calculated to inspire dread by the nocturnal darkness they contend with, and hence are held in popular fancy nearly everywhere, to cause, portend, or accord with changes in the lot of mortals, and all things terrestrial.

Since the Pequod war, there had been no great Indian uprising; but there was a general feeling of uneasiness which seemed to portend a general outbreak.

Did it portend good or evil?

In the infancy of astronomical science it was regarded by astrologers as a sign to portend the birth of an extraordinary individual.

At this distance of time we find it hard to realize what the election of 1800 seemed to portend to those who participated therein.

Did his dream portend the loss of his young wife?

When the morning sunlight warms his lips they part a little, and he giveth utterance to the words "Oon Oom," and the language is long since dead in which he speaks, and all his worshippers are gathered to their tombs, so that none knoweth what the words portend that he uttereth at dawn.

But in Babbulkund King Nehemoth hath been troubled in the nights by unkingly dreams of doom, and none may interpret what the dreams portend.

And the golden day appeared, dispelling dreams, and still the abominations were silent, and the King's prophets answered not to portend the omen of the dream.

What can this portend?

The roar of battle still renders inaudible all voices save its own, but already the dusk begins to gather over the halls where sit the War-lord and those who, for the realisation of their monstrous dreams, loosed hell upon the world, and in the growing dusk there begin to steal upon the wall the letters of pale flame that to them portend the doom, and to us give promise of dawn.

And a mule brought forth young, an occurrence which had been previously interpreted as destined to portend the possession of authority by him.

Again, for many days a comet star had been seen in Rome and was said to portend nothing favorable.

There were, two or three Nights ago, some Fiddles heard in the Street, which I am afraid portend me no Good; not to mention a tall Irish-Man, that has been seen walking before my House more than once this Winter.

And amongst the omens which portend immortality, not necessarily for the philosophical scheme, but for the "God-intoxicated" devoutness of his Pantheism, is the desire, or rather the imperious need increasingly realized, for a religion emancipated from theories of creation or teleology, intolerant of any miracle, save indeed the wonders of the spiritual life, and satisfying the heart with an ever present God.

"It seems to portend mischief.

What could this portend?

Then, having become one on this serious subject, we began to wonder what Mr. Haines' dream might portend this time, and prepare our minds for the verse from the prophecies over which dear Uncle Pennyman had made his latest stumble.

What did they portend?

I watched him narrowly at noon, and I remarked that he smiled more than once when there was no visible cause for mirth, and you well known what his smiles portend.

You can never tell, I have learned, just what a twinkle in a British staff officer's eye may portend.

In the next place, I shall make out any Dream, upon hearing a single Circumstance of it; and in the last place, shall expound to them the good or bad Fortune which such Dreams portend.

what could it portend?

When at the Ludi Romani not one of the senators was entertained on the Capitol, as had been the custom, they took this, too, as a portent.

Henry, who had been one of the first in earlier days to sound the note of revolution, saw in the proposed national government a portent to popular liberties.

The shop was lighted only by a few diamond-shaped holes in the central shutters, and it had a troubling aspect of portent, with its merchandise mysteriously enveloped in pale sheets, and its chairs wrong side up, and its deep-shadowed corners.

Omen N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign &c (indication) 550; harbinger &c (precursor) 64; yule candle^. bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning &c 668. prefigurement &c 511.

[Fr.], coup de theatre; gazingstock^; sign; St. Elmo's fire, St. Elmo's light; portent &c 512. bursting of a shell, bursting of a bomb; volcanic eruption, peal of thunder; thunder-clap, thunder-bolt.

A heavenly portent, let us hope, Presaging triumph to our British arms.

portada, f., portal, façade. porte, m., bearing, deportment. portento, m., prodigy, portent, micacle.

presa, f., capture, prize; de, a prey to. presagio, m., presage, omen, portent, token.

It was not without misgivings that this step was taken: Duchess Eleanora, in particular, expressed dissatisfaction with the match, and feared, perhaps superstitiously, the portent of a second unlucky alliance.

Though the aruspices forewarned him that the portent had reference to the general, and that he ought to be on his guard against secret enemies and machinations, yet no foresight could avert the destiny which awaited him.

On he struggles through that wild, and too luxuriant cover; now brought up by a "lawyer," now stumbling over a root, now bogged in a green spring, now flushing a stray covey of birds of Paradise, now a sphinx, chimaera, strix, lamia, fire-drake, flying-donkey, two-headed eagle (Austrian, as will appear shortly), or other portent only to be seen now-a-days in the recesses of that enchanted forest, the convolutions of a poet's brain.

Her voice quivered a little as she asked, very low, "Do you have to do that?" "Whyerno," began the puzzled Julien, who failed for the moment to perceive what of tragic portent inhered in a prospective afternoon of golf.

His presence now was of serious portent; for Wellington recalled, with acute alarm, that the elder's wife had died only a few weeks before his own departure for the North.

The Coming of the Woman-Child The next day he sent across the settlement for the child, waiting for her with mixed emotions,a trembling merge of love and fear, with something, indeed, of awe for this woman-child of her mother, who had come to him so deviously and with a secret significance so mighty of portent to his own soul.

There was no attempt at secrecy; the conference, whatever its portent, had the merit of being quite above-board.

Besides this most peculiar feature it was noticeable that whereas in reference to all other matters sky-divination either allowed things to be done and they were carried out without consulting any individual augury further, or else it would prevent and hinder something, it restrained the balloting of the populace altogether and was always a portent to check them, whether it was of a favorable or ill-boding nature.

SEE Beard, Charles A. The Navy: defense or portent?

He is not merely something negligible or accidental or ornamental, he is something real and true, the product of his time, at once a phenomenon and a portent.

The religious man himself holds it as a veritable portent that he outlived such a terrible trial; but even this did not satisfy them as subsequently the Secretary again called Father Ceferino to subject him to a further scrutiny, as ridiculous as it was malicious, though it did not go beyond words or insults.

I fear it is of dire portent.

(Stop, stop!) "Comment se portent Madame Rolette et les enfans?"

The act was friendly, and of good portent.

The Portent. (1859.)

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone Portent or promiseand gives way To pale, meek Dawn; The coming, going, Alike in wonder showing Alike the God, Decreeing and commanding The million blades that glowed, The muster and disbanding Midnight and Morn.

If men in the twelfth century had been told that the lightning had been driven for leagues underground, and had dragged at its destroying tail loads of laughing human beings, and if they had then been told that the people alluded to this pulverising portent chirpily as 'The Twopenny Tube,' they would have called down the fire of Heaven on us as a race of half-witted atheists.