"Mr. Blaine,"-the girl faced him, her voice steadied and deepened portentously,-"my father died of heart-disease, did he not?"
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
To the right was the rugged coast of Greenland, its huge, ice-chiselled cliffs leaping portentously forward in the gloom.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Dink Scribbens didn't matter, but Marston did-Marston, whose heavy figure was beginning already to loom on his life's horizon portentously.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey