Crimmins knew of old what that mouth Portended, and he spoke hurriedly.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
Two minutes passed, and the inspector began to think that his eyesight was failing, or that a worse thing Portended.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
The great heat which had prevailed during so many successive days there, Portended some such change as this; and we were thus likely to be caught in that very region so subject to inundation, which I was formerly so careful to avoid, that I endeavoured to travel so as to be within reach of a hilly country.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell