| Could it be that the this turning of the greatest of the beasts of structure, corporations, could betoken an even more significant change? |
| In the minds of local farmers, the peony tree to some extent is a god, and the great number of its flowers betoken that year's foison. |
| But they betoken something that I believe has very ominous implications. |
| This decay must betoken the doom of modern civilisation as it did that of Rome and Greece, unless some new moral or physical factors arise to defeat it. |
| The meaning was that the unknown or veiled one might betoken a storm for them. |
| That instability, in turn, may betoken some profound change on the horizon. |
