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 lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain’s brow Illumed with gold, his near approach Betoken glad.”
From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Stables, Gordon
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
Betoken, be-tō′kn, v.t. to show by a sign: to foreshow.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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