In despair, when premonitory symptoms warned him that his stomach was not so strong as of old, he filled his pipe and struck up a smoke.

A premonitory attack had occurred in the preceding autumn, which at the time affected his speech, but on recovering a little, he expressed his confidence in God in these remarkable words: "It is rolled up; it is rolled up.

There is a kind of premonitory apology implied in my saying this, I am aware.

Sooty-faced men, horses and donkeys passed with loaded carts; and all the premonitory aspects of the "black country" multiplied as I proceeded.

"This, of course, I told him was nothing but nerves; yet really, it made me feel very anxious; for I have seen too much not to know that under such circumstances a premonitory conviction of impending danger is not necessarily to be put down entirely to nerves.

Suddenly came a sharp premonitory crash just above us, near, astonishing.

4. Cholera is almost always preceded by a premonitory diarrhoea, which lasts from one or two to three or four or more days before urgent and characteristic symptoms show themselves.

Josephine already had a premonitory distrust of the future, and it may sometimes have happened that she took the mighty eagle that fluttered above her head for a bird of evil omen whose warning cry she frequently fancied that she heard in the stillness of the night.

Yet nothing but a long series of premonitory dreams could suffice for the basis of a scientific theory.

Long before I had accomplished half the distance, however, another flash announced the quick coming of the tempest, and the first premonitory drops began to plash down heavily upon the pavement.

Less than a mile from Cougar Bay, the Waterbug's engine gave a few premonitory gasps and died.

A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip.

Nor had many months elapsed before she began to hear premonitory murmurs of an incoming sea of trouble.

It is painful to think of the dozens of girl babies in long clothes who must have been feeling premonitory pangs when Peter was four, to think they couldn't all marry him when they grew up!

Chapter V Jeffrey Blackmore's Will My arrival at Thorndyke's chambers was not unexpected, having been heralded by a premonitory post-card.

He knew it by the quiver that ran through her like the premonitory ripple on smooth water before the coming of the wind.

he soliloquized, "no wonder you felt a premonitory sense of the fitness of frills!

Wishing you enjoyable intellectual evening "W." It needed receipt of a petit-bleu, while he was dressing for dinner, to cure Lanyard of an attack of premonitory shivers brought on by recollection of the awful truth that one is never really safe in trifling with an Englishman's sense of humour.

When in the region and in the season of revolving storms, be on the watch for premonitory signs.

Then as old Stapylton stirred in his chair and broke into a wide premonitory smile, Colonel Musgrave rose to his feet.

I had already closed the door, and before the man had uttered more than a premonitory sound, David had clapped the end of his bludgeon against his mouth.

And circumstances justified my confidence; for the clock yet stood at two minutes to seven when a premonitory tap at the surgery door heralded her arrival.

There is a long way there between Emily Brontë and St. John of the Cross, between her lamp-lit window and his "Dark Night of the Soul", and yet her opening lines have something of the premonitory thrill, the haunting power of tremendous suggestion, the intense, mysterious expectancy of his.

The groan was but a premonitory thunder to a shower of sticks, stones, whiskey-bottles, and superannuated eggs.

A premonitory warning of these is generally given.