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.

Oh! mark it well, mock not its dire portent.

Then arose a cry, heard for the first time by the excited Andynever later recalled without a thrill as he realized from that experience its terrific portent.

Mr. Law, a conscientious but credulous clergyman of the Kirk of Scotland, who lived in the seventeenth century, has left behind him a very curious manuscript, in which, with the political events of that distracted period, he has intermingled the various portents and marvellous occurrences which, in common with his age, he ascribed to supernatural agency.

Charming Billy, hearing the crooning wail of it, knew well the portent and sighed.

The Boy did his stoking gloomily, reading aright these portents.

Britain, for thee this fearful warning sent, Oh! mock not foolishly its dire portent; For now that vice on all her malice wreaks, Charms on the stage, and in the assembly speaks; Now that with cheating fires she shameless dares, Fortunate where virtue once defied her snares; Again I say, for thee this warning sent,

Amid the hanging silencelike a portent it overhung himhe raised the strange weapon and brought it gruntingly down with all the strength of his stout muscles.

cit., 608) summarizing the portents listed in the Mahabharata but not included in the Vishnu or Bhagavata Puranas.

Anything like this would restore the connection: The labouring heavens themselves teemed dire portent As starres &c.]

Ah, think you 'tis a portent?

They announced many unusual portents, however, that applied to him, as if they could avoid including the public in their curse: at one time as he was offering on the Capitol the customary prayers for his campaign they spread a report of omens and wonders, and again when he was setting out they called down many terrible curses upon him.

Things endued with light are all pale; beasts and birds look fierce; and there are to be witnessed many terrific portents indicative of the destruction of Kshatriyas.

The business, however, of the Aruspices was not confined to the altars and sacrifices, they had an equal right to explain all other portents.

Golden days they promised to be to him and to Marie, but to France those early August days held portents of defeat and disaster.