portend vs suggest

portend

verb
  • To signify; to denote. 

  • To serve as a warning or omen of. 

suggest

verb
  • To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something). 

  • To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something). 

  • To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it 

How often have the words portend and suggest occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )