betoken
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The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountains’ brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.
From In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism by Stables, Gordon
The chief diviner will. divine the dreams;--How the multitudes, dissolving into fishes, Betoken plentiful years; How the tortoise-and-serpent, dissolving into the falcon, banners, Betoken the increasing population of the kingdom.
From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by Legge, James
The quotation is somewhat as follows: The ringing of the evening bells, The moon a crescent splendid, The rustling of the swallow's wings Betoken winter ended.
From The Chinese Boy and Girl by Headland, Isaac Taylor
And these red drops of frankincense Betoken man's intelligence.
From Forty-Two Poems by Flecker, James Elroy
The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illum'd with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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