I turned toward the huge, white orb, with a premonition of coming trouble.

" When the thought which has floatednebulousacross our mental vision, suddenly resolves itself into tangible form and becomes a solid fact to be confronted and battled with, the shock is greater than if no shadowy premonition had ever haunted the dreamland of our fancy.

It is the result of the deep-rooted consciousness, the slumbering premonition of being surrounded by that which is higher and more conscious than ourselves."

Many of us will feel with Froebel that the fairy-tale, with its slumbering premonition of being surrounded by that which is higher and more "conscious than ourselves," has its place, and an important place, in religious development.

The bell-rope swayed to and fro with a mimic oscillation; a sort of admonitory premonition of what it must shortly do ran up its fibres.

I had no premonition of tragedyany such tragedy as afterwards occurred.

"But after that he would not listen to reason, and perhaps he had a premonition of his own sudden death, for he made a will bequeathing all he possessed to his sweetheart.

Had his seeming nearness to the stars in the convent loggia brought him a premonition of the later message which had made him the "friend and master" of Galileo? Did he develop his "Laws of Sound" in that voiceful silence; or was it in that solitude he had first watched the gentle ebb and flow of his own life-current and learned the secret which Harvey, later, uttered to the world?

If his mind was uneasy, oppressed by a nightmarish burden of half-knowledge, guesses, and premonition, it was not apparent to the general observer.

[False or vicious reasoning; show of reason.] N. intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling; presentiment, premonition; rule of thumb; superstition; astrology^; faith (supposition) 514. sophistry, paralogy^, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet^, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness &c adj.; nonsense &c 497; word sense, tongue sense.

&c (plan) 626; premonition &c (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology^, prognostication, premonstration^; augury, auguration^; ariolation^, hariolation^; foreboding, aboding^; bodement^, abodement^; omniation^, omniousness^; auspices, forecast; omen &c 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth^, soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy &c 992.

Warning N. warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice &c (information) 527; premonition, premonishment^; prediction &c 511; contraindication, lesson, dehortation^; admonition, monition; alarm &c 669.

I don't know the right path to it, but I've got a premonition we'll find it.

Acting upon a premonition, Dan dismounted a short distance from Rogers's house and ran to the door.

He would have liked to keep her longer, but with her strange premonition of him he felt powerless to detain her, or explain his reason for doing so.

A wind that justifies studding-sails may change, without premonition, to a gale that will make ribbons of top-sails and of storm-sails.

Mary dropped down, limp with a sudden premonition, upon the gloucester swing in the veranda.

He put down the lens and glanced at the clock on the mantel-piece with a premonition of lunch; and as he did so his clerk quietly entered the room with one of those printed slips which were kept for the announcement of unknown visitors.

" Perhaps for an instant there came upon the stern priest some premonition of that dreadful morning when, as he crouched in a corner of 'his burning home, fifty daggers were to rasp against each other in his body.

Therefore he visited retribution secretly and in places where one would least have expected it,both for the sake of his reputation, to avoid seeming to be of a wrathful disposition, and to the end that no one through premonition should be on his guard in advance, or try to inflict some dangerous injury upon his persecutor before being injured.

It came swift and sudden, without the faintest sign or premonition.

It was strange that she had premonition of the recurring fits of her disorder; and when the ghost of unreason beckoned, Charles took her by the hand and led her to the appointed home.

" A suspicion, a kind of premonition, lighted the fires of defence.

They must have been a premonition of his fate in falling completely under the spell of an unloving woman.

She opened the box, and with a fateful premonition looked within.