betoken

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The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with liquid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

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

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

Earth has been splendid in her changing moods, Whose scattered glories mark the moment spent; Reliques of mirth or thoughtful solitudes Betoken what a Christ or Dante meant.

From Ships in Harbour by Morton, David

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