I have queer premonitions, Mr. Milligan, I'm sure he's coming

These fragmentary phrases, however, feathered with consternation, filled Peter with vague premonitions.

But the days of John Halifax himself were now drawing to a close, and he was not without premonitions of his end; for in his talks with Phineas Fletcher, who had remained his faithful companion all these years, he spoke as one would speak of a new abode, an impending journey.

To the happiest walking there would come strange sinkings of the heart, unaccountable premonitions of overhanging doom.

His complete weariness conquered his premonitions, his feeling of helplessness.

PREMONITIONS OF PERIL.

" Undine winced under the criticism; but she had never lacked insight into the cause of her own failures, and she had already had premonitions of what Madame de Trezac so bluntly phrased.

Old chronicles, tournaments, jewelry, precious stones, Maryism, nature from every conceivable point of view, dreams and premonitions, visions and hallucinations, religion of the renunciatory type, the pain that clarifies, the friendship that weeps, Catholic painting and lute music, and lovehuman and divinethese are the main themes in this tale.

The atmosphere was full of rumours, portents, strange premonitions of revolution and doom.

"As the blue hills of Neversink faded away, and sank with the sun behind the ocean, and I felt the first swells of the Atlantic," he writes, "and the premonitions of seasickness, my heart failed me for the first and last time.

They would come to her with their premonitions.

They give cause for hopes, for wishes, for premonitions.

Into his heart came the premonitions of the peace of God, which passeth understanding.

They were not exactly afraid, but they had premonitions of approaching trouble.

Looking back, Blanche Farrow told herself that that day had been full of curious premonitions.

For the first time since his marriage he harboured premonitions of failure.

These were the premonitions of success; before such signs of victory all spirit of faction was fused into a generous glow of emulation.

Such premonitions, though not always necessary when the reader has the book complete in his hand, and may find, by his own eyes, whatever can be found in it, yet may be more easily allowed to works published gradually in successive parts, of which the scheme can only be so far known as the author shall think fit to discover it.

Mrs. Lyth looked, nay longed for the time of her departure; and as the hour drew on, seems to have had some pleasant premonitions of its approach.

It is idle to hope that this vast panorama can arouse great interest in the West and even in India it is unlikely that many would now approach its gigantic recital with premonitions of delight.

CHAPTER VII. PREMONITIONS.

Premonitions precede the discovery as complements should follow.

The attack proved to be the prostration of the nervous system, resulting from overworking the brain, a difficulty that had been foreshadowed by several premonitions during the preceding year.

" The same writer says: "Short of perfect prevision we find that all degrees of this type of clairvoyance exist, from the occasional vague premonitions which cannot in any true sense be called sight at all, up to frequent and fairly complete second-sight.

The book also tells you about different kinds of spirits, including apparitions (ghosts) and spirit guides (the spirit friends that are constantly with each of us); about spirit control (how spirits work through the organisms of mediums); and about spirit-given premonitions, warnings, death-signs, etc.