Presentiments
[pri'zentimənts]
Examples
- Of the presentiments which some people are always having, some surely must come right. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These tokens of the Serjeant's presentiments on the subject, slight as they were, were not lost on Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For many days I have longed to disclose the mysterious presentiments that weigh on me, although I fear that you will ridicule them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Do you ever have presentiments, Mr Flintwinch? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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