settings
War and Peace vocabulary
10 outdated vocabulary words
help & settings
[x]
-
betoken
-
synonyms: evince, presage, portent, prefigure ???
tags: [dated]
► definition
Definition:to be a sign of; to indicate
► uses
Uses:
it was a counterpane with something underneath it like the outline of a human leg. Silas withdrew his arm and stood a moment petrified. “What, what,” he thought, “can this betoken?”
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Suicide Club
---
Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start;
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
---
Prince Andrew’s coming to Otradnoe and their coming to Petersburg, and the likeness between Natasha and Prince Andrew which her nurse had noticed on his first visit, and Andrew’s encounter with Nicholas in 1805, and many other incidents betokening that it had to be.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
help with search