...In the club, in the theatre, wherever he went, the people were talking about purchases of lands, of sales of stock, of quick negotiations with a triple profit, of portentous balances... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...The traveller patiently listened to the narrative, which lost nothing of its portentous significance through Musa's relation, and then asked Musa if he believed it...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The bell was answered by the butler, who looked portentous and stood resolutely in the doorway...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...Peering between the rails he saw a tall, dark shape,with gigantic head, vast antlers, and portentous bulk of shoulder,step noiselessly from the thicket and stand motionless...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...andthe sky looked more portentous of rainy weather than we had ever seen iton this journey...
Thomas Mitchell 「Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia」
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