404 examples of presentiments in sentences

Presages, prodigies, presentiments, etc. CHAPTER XVI.

But instincts and presentiments, though we are not scientifically ignorant enough to disregard them, are not evidence on which we can act or even inquire.

She was sure that Henrich knew best; and she silently watched him leave the garden, and enter the shade of the thick forest, accompanied by her joyous little brother. Were her fears, indeed, the mere creation of her own young fancy I or were they occasioned by one of those strange and unaccountable presentiments which have been felt so frequently as to justify the old proverb, 'Coming events cast their shadow, before them.

Because I know nothing of presentiments.

A point arises; the question takes a problematical, a baffling, yet a likely air; the talkers begin to feel lively presentiments of some conclusion near at hand; towards this they strive with emulous ardour, each by his own path, and struggling for first utterance; and then one leaps upon the summit of that matter with a shout, and almost at the same moment the other is beside him; and behold they are agreed.

Sadly Caius must have recognised that his presentiments would soon be fulfilled, and that he must share his brother's fate.

Do you believe in presentiments, Mademoiselle?

" "Not so," said Claude, "but I cannot deny that such things as presentiments may be possible.

x.] Such presentiments were found scattered through America.

I have shown the strange similarity in their accounts of their mysterious early benefactor and teacher, and their still more strange, because true, presentiments of the arrival of pale-faced conquerors from the East.

I am no believer in those freaks of fancy called "presentiments," but I certainly felt that there was something unpleasant, perhaps painful, in the private relations of the family.

Alas! her presentiments were correct.

The wedding day is soon fixed, but strange misgivings and presentiments haunt the young lady's mind.

She spoke, wrote, sang, and had presentiments of the finest kind, in this condition,far better than I have ever seen here in America in the case of the most celebrated mediums.

If a man pays particular attention to this spot and is absorbed in it, he falls into a state of mental sickness, has presentiments of 'things of another world,' which are, in reality, no things at all, possessing neither form nor limit, but alarming him like dark, empty tracts of night, and pursuing him as something more than phantoms, if he does not tear himself free from them.

Presentiments of Marimonda.

Presentiments of Marimonda.

What you say about presentiments reminds me of a strange experience that I had myself.

" Her words caused me a twinge of anguish, for I am afraid of everything, even presentiments, and am ready to see in every word a forecast of evil.

A point arises; the question takes a problematical, a baffling, yet a likely air; the talkers begin to feel lively presentiments of some conclusion near at hand; towards this they strive with emulous ardour, each by his own path, and struggling for first utterance; and then one leaps upon the summit of that matter with a shout, and almost at the same moment the other is beside him; and behold they are agreed.

We're a people of presentiments down here on the Flats, and well we may be.

She is alarmed by bad dreams and by presentiments of evil to come.

Though Delsarte be acknowledged the discoverer of the law of æsthetics, he may have held points in common with many who before him had had presentiments of its coming and had instinctively experienced its force.

Though Ercole is stout of heart, and has broad shoulders to bear such burdens as fall to his lot, he lingered long on the way, for his presentiments were gloomy; and at the great door of the Palazzo he even stopped to inquire of the porter whether the contessina had been seen to go out yet, half hoping that she would thus save him the mortification of an interview.

He will not hear of presentiments, and, unlike Hegel, he scouts the Highland second-sight.

404 examples of  presentiments  in sentences