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More, also, it will betoken -- that he shall reign in England and in Denmark, a great king and mighty.

From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

The second brother, finding the chaplet shrunk, goes off in his turn, leaving his ring with the youngest brother—if it contract on the finger it will betoken his death.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir