Which preposition to use with presentiments
He must have had an inner sense or presentiment of some kind about the future, for I have heard him say often in speaking of the old days and the glories of the Empire, when everything seemed so prosperous and brilliant, that he used often to ask himself if it could be realWere the foundations as solid as they seemed!
Life is one long presentiment with me.
Even should he refuse it, in two years the law will permit me to dispose of myself as I choose.' 'May Heaven remove this sad presentiment from my mind; but it makes me tremble.
That night, either because of the wind or because I had taken too strong coffee, I fell into "the fidgets," as this state of mind is sometimes called, and selected for immediate cause of discomfort the Panther's presentiment about the red fox.
The conduct of this base hypocrite proved that the warning presentiment against him had not been without foundation.
So 'generous and free from all contriving' is Hamlet, (220) that, even with the presentiment in his heart, he has no fear of treachery.]
But he had no such fortune, and here claims record a fact even more wonderful than Anna's presentiment as to Hilary that morning in Mobile Bay.
An additional fear or presentiment at times haunted the mind of the missionary.