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

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

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

These signs will sometimes manifest themselves many hours, nay days, before the attack occurs; may be looked upon as premonitory; and if timely noticed, and suitable medical aid resorted to, the occurrence of a fit may be altogether prevented.

Hoarseness does not usually attend a common cold in the child, and these symptoms may be premonitory of an attack of "croup;" a disease excessively rapid in its progress, and which, from the importance of the parts affected, carrying on, as they do, a function indispensably necessary to life, requires the most prompt and decided treatment.

Hoarseness, however, is the premonitory and important symptom of croup; for although it is not every hoarseness that is followed by this formidable malady, still this symptom rarely attends a common cold in young children, and therefore always deserves when present the serious attention of the mother, particularly if accompanied by a rough cough.

There was only one message awaiting me, and when Adolphus had delivered it (amidst mephitic fumes that rose from the basement, premonitory of fried plaice), I pocketed my stethoscope and betook myself to Gunpowder Alley, the aristocratic abode of my patient, joyfully threading the now familiar passages of Gough Square and Wine Office Court, and meditating pleasantly on the curious literary flavour that pervades these little-known regions.

Adj. predicting &c v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic^, fatidical^; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent^, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise^. ominous, portentous, augurous^, augurial, augural; auspicial^, auspicious; prescious^, monitory, extispicious^, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.

Adj. warning &c v.; premonitory, monitory, cautionary; admonitory, admonitive^; sematic [Biol.]. warned, forewarned &c v.; on one's guard &c (careful) 459, (cautious) 864.

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.

Clerambault, withdrawn from the crowd, had caught the contagion from it, and the evil announced itself by the usual premonitory symptoms.

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.

I forget which was the first distemper I plunged intosome fearful, devastating scourge, I knowand, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.

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

Under her name on the flat tombstone a verse stands, premonitory, prophetic, calling to her kindred: "Be ye also ready.

Charlotte's dream (premonitory, she thought, of trouble) was that she carried a little crying child, and could not still its cry.

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

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

"You'll get killed yourself then, you brute," said Upton, Russell's cousin, a fifth-form boy, who had just come into the roomand he boxed his ears as a premonitory admonition.

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

Delsarte must also have learned in the course of his life, that genius, a rare exception, is more rarely still judged by its peers; and yet, the genius of this student was already revealed by various tokens; and for his consolation, these premonitory symptoms were noted by other than the official judges.

He told us that grandfather was better; that it was what the doctor called a premonitory attack; that he might have another and more serious one any day, or that he might live on for years without a repetition.

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.

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

Is this a return for your parent's love and assiduous care; for your friends' solicitude and premonitory advice?