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Example sentences for "foreboded"

Lexicographically close words:
forearm; forearms; forebear; forebears; forebode; forebodes; foreboding; forebodings; forebore; forecast
  1. One of these was when it foreboded the death of Ellen's mother; the other when it foreboded the exile of the Douglasses during the minority of James V.

  2. But Calchas would not with that eager host Launch forth; yea, he had fain withheld therefrom All the Achaeans, for his prophet-soul Foreboded dread destruction looming o'er The Argives by the Rocks Capherean.

  3. Now when Herod was at Daphne, by Antioch, he had some dreams which clearly foreboded his brother's death; and as he leaped out of his bed in a disturbed manner, there came messengers that acquainted him with that calamity.

  4. But when he had sailed to Celenderis, a suspicion came into his mind relating to his mother's misfortunes; as if his soul foreboded some mischief to itself.

  5. But the iron vengeance of that nation of soldiers, thus far successfully braved, was not to be foreboded without alarm by the Athenians.

  6. His father-in-law, who well knew what he would have done in the unfortunate man's place, had immediately foreboded his suicide and wept aloud.

  7. Something was impending which he foreboded and feared.

  8. Grandmother who foreboded the future, told me I had been sacrificed, abandoned, repudiated, and urged me to accompany her.

  9. During the tedious days of convalescence she contracted a cold that attacked her lungs, and foreboded congestion; and though yielding to medical treatment, it left her as souvenir, a.

  10. Thus spoke Zwingle, as he advanced calmly towards the threatening noise of the tempest, which, by its repeated flashes and sudden explosions, foreboded death.

  11. From that time forward Luther lost the good opinion he had previously entertained of Charles, and foreboded the stormiest future.

  12. The croaking of crows and ravens foreboded rain.

  13. The screaming of certain birds, as we have already seen, foreboded disaster.

  14. Sooth to say her heart was sinking, as though she foreboded some new thing, which should thrust itself into their merry life.

  15. For it must be said that as some folk eat out their hearts with fear of the coming evils, even so was she feeding her soul with the joy of the days to be, whatever trouble might fall upon them, whereof belike she foreboded some.

  16. They know that you are in the neighbourhood, and a rascally innkeeper has crossed the frontier for the express purpose of betraying your whereabouts to the French gendarmes.

  17. If he has been arrested, as you give me to understand may be the case, he will be summoned before a court-martial.

  18. Were it lost, he justly foreboded dire calamities and the ruin of his race.

  19. And Archbishop Williams told Charles the First confidentially, "There was that in Cromwell which foreboded something dangerous, and wished his majesty would either win him over to him, or get him taken off.

  20. And she went over all the old grounds agin to me, that she had foreboded on; and I went over all the old grounds of soothing agin and agin.

  21. And I'd try to sooth her (for that red spot on her cheeks skairt me, and I foreboded about her).

  22. I had feared and foreboded,--oh, how I had feared and foreboded about the dangers and deep perils of Washington, D.

  23. Two pistols, to his girdle tied, Foreboded vengeance, far and wide, To all that were not on our side, With heart and hand.

  24. She had a feeling for the motherless youth, upon whom she foreboded that a fatal game might be played.

  25. She wanted to hear a guess, and Susan actually foreboded the truth, but was too full of dismay and perplexity to do anything but shake her head as one puzzled.

  26. She gazed at the harvest-fields full of sheaves, the orchards laden with ruddy apples, the trees assuming their autumn tints, with lingering eyes, as of one who foreboded that these sights of earth were passing from her.

  27. All his life he had been manœuvring against France becoming officially Protestant, which would have foreboded the dreaded coalition of France, England, Holland, and the northern powers against him.

  28. A well lighted room, with a blazing fire and an excellent dinner, made the party almost rejoice to hear the whistling wind and driving showers, that foreboded a stormy night.

  29. A man of sense, but weak and blameworthy, he foreboded but too truly how that kind of popular tragedy would end; and in coming to a strait so dreadful, he saw himself forsaken and betrayed by the child he loved.

  30. He foreboded no good therefrom, thought that the angel might be an angel of darkness, and feared that the Evil One under the shape of a gentle girl would deal his blows with all the more baleful effect.

  31. He saw the squatter's frown grow deeper, his face become livid; all this foreboded a storm which he was not anxious to see burst to his presence.

  32. In a word, all foreboded one of those hurricanes such as are only seen in these countries, and which make the most intrepid men turn pale with terror.

  33. The wounds were all healthy; that on the shoulder was the worst, but all foreboded a speedy recovery.

  34. She seems to have Foreboded some misfortune.

  35. I foreboded it, coward, when I first looked on you!

  36. Too innocent to imagine the real motive that prompted the senator's intrusion on her slumbers, where others of her sex would have foreboded dishonour, she feared death.

  37. What I had at one glance foreboded was true--he acknowledged it.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreboded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.