Forebodings
[fɔ:'bəʊdɪŋz]
Examples
- After he had left them they went silently below, each wrapped in gloomy forebodings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I am quite glad you are at home; for these hurries and forebodings by which I have been surrounded all day long, have made me nervous without reason. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And Dobbin quitted him, full of forebodings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Dr. Bond, on some other occasion afterward, said that he did not like Franklin's forebodings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But her present forebodings she feared would experience no similar contradiction. Jane Austen. Emma.
- As I wandered about the plaza lost in my gloomy forebodings Tars Tarkas approached me on his way from the audience chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- While she remained thus, overcome by her forebodings, the old clock indoors whizzed forth twelve strokes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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