32 Verbs to Use for the Word presentiment

Amelia shrunk and started; she felt a presentiment of terror, for she knew that Georgie's relations had seen him.

"That he's coming?" "Been coming these two dayspure presentiment!" "Nan, whether he is or not, if you'll tell us what Colonel Greenleaf wrote you

But all Nature was madly excited with me and also shared my presentiment of destruction.

I tried to read the presentiment as I dressed.

The Countess sees all these pretensions at a glance, or at least, if in the cloud which still envelops them, she does not distinguish them clearly, nature gives her a presentiment of what the cost will be if she allows you the least opportunity to instruct her in a passion which she doubtless already shares.

The crudest intellect cannot speculate on such a subject without having a presentiment that Time is something ideal in its nature.

He was, at the time of which I am speaking, scarcely two-and-twenty, and could claim no higher praise than having written a clever worldly-minded satire; and yet it was impossible, even then, to reflect on the bias of his mind, as it was revealed by the casualties of conversation, without experiencing a presentiment, that he was destined to execute some singular and ominous purpose.

His boding was made-up of omens, dreams, and such stuff as he most affected to despise, and there fluttered at his heart a presentiment and disgust.

"Yes, I've got a presentiment that it's so.

to his letter no second had been returned; and he feltthough he dared not confess it to himselfa gloomy presentiment of evil flit across him, as he thought of his fallen fortunes, and the altered light in which his suit would be regarded by Argemone's parents.

On hearing this alarming presentiment of their early death, all four little girls raised a hideous cry, and, burying their faces in their mother's lap simultaneously, screamed until the eight flaxen tails vibrated; Mrs. Kenwigs meanwhile clasping them alternately to her bosom, with attitudes expressive of distraction.

He held the letter in his hand, a strange presentiment of evil creeping over him which he could not account for.

Which still, with froward captiousness, impains E'en the presentiment of every joy, While low realities and paltry cares The spirit's fond imaginings destroy.

Rhythm of the spirit is necessary to comprehend music in its essence; music imparts presentiments, inspirations of divine science, and what the spirit experiences of the sensuous in it is the embodiment of spiritual knowledge.

I always feel as if I had nothing to say, and the performance generally justifies the presentiment.

I had known, to be sure, some fifty presentiments which came to nothing,

One might appeal to her feelings, you knowhave a presentiment of early deathwipe away a tear...

"The princess had bowed her head, and the soft and plenteous waters of her eyes had dried like dew under the midsummer sun; yet still she closed her eyes, for her brain felt fixed and alight with a nameless awe, such as passion lends presentiment.

" "I like not that word presentiment," grumbled the Alderman, taking a light, and snuffing it with deliberate care; "drop but a single letter, and one dreams of the pains and penalties of the Exchequer.

The Florentines did not the less nourish their mistrustful presentiments; and one of Louis XII.'s most intelligent advisers, his finance-minister Florimond Robertet, was not slow to share them.

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.

The lines, 'I think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years,' taken in connection with his subsequent career, suggest the similarly sad "presentiment" with which the 'Lines composed above Tintern Abbey' conclude.

They told the disappointments of the week, their presentiments, their fears about the letters; but now all was forgotten, and they were face to face, with their laugh of voluptuousness and terms of endearment.

"'An' now that you have seen him,' says he, 'what do you think of him?' "Now, I had made up my mind before I entered this ducal pile, or put my foot on one ancestral stone, that I'd be square and honest through the whole business, and not try no counterfeit presentiments with the earl.

The Spanish settlers also learned to foretell the approach of a hurricane by the sulphurous exhalations of the earth, but especially by the incessant neighing of horses, bellowing of cattle, and general restlessness of these animals, who seem to acquire a presentiment of the coming danger.

32 Verbs to Use for the Word  presentiment