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Example sentences for "presentiment"

Lexicographically close words:
presentent; presenter; presentes; presenteth; presenti; presentiments; presenting; presentium; presentlie; presently
  1. Well, has the insect, or rather, has any kind of animal, a presentiment that its life cannot last for ever?

  2. He noticed this singular coincidence, as if in mournful presentiment of his own early decease, as a singular concatenation of events by the hand of Destiny.

  3. He seems to have felt the presentiment of approaching death, and indeed described the speech which he delivered as his testament.

  4. She felt that it was not to be, and before the presentiment her her soul paused.

  5. The presentiment filled her with delight and fear, and both sensations were mingled at the same moment in her heart as she rose from her chair.

  6. When such a presentiment takes possession of a well-balanced mind like that of Miss Marjoribanks, it may be accepted as certain that something is likely to follow.

  7. A vague presentiment of greater evil behind impelled her to some action, and shame and pride combined at the same time to keep her silent.

  8. The indefinite gives us our earliest presentiment of the infinite; the religion of mystery is fetishism.

  9. Martha, as I knew her in those raptured days of love on the banks of the Hudson before disease and weakness and age had stolen the bloom from her cheeks, the light from her eyes, and the fair presentiment of charm and perfection from her body.

  10. And there was in her heart at this moment a presentiment that time would sever the bonds of propriety that held her.

  11. She had not said so much to Carrington, but her instinct told her, warned her, gave her a presentiment of impending trouble.

  12. For three days she continued her search for tidings of her father, eager and hopeful; and then for the remainder of the week she did her searching mechanically, doggedly, with a presentiment of failure to harass her.

  13. She, like Parsons, had awakened with a presentiment of impending pleasure.

  14. For Carrington's voice, thick and vibrant, smote her with a presentiment of danger to herself.

  15. Yes," she breathed, her face alight with eagerness, for now since the man had spoken her name the presentiment of news grew stronger.

  16. It was too late; a swift presentiment of the catastrophe flashed across my mind, but I was powerless to avert it.

  17. At last, when a faint presentiment of dawn began to glimmer through the fog, the Lapp halted and announced that he had lost the way.

  18. He thought then that he should be alone, to meet any vicissitudes which might arise, and he could not repress a kind of presentiment of evil, vague and indefinite.

  19. It is stated that the monks themselves, when out upon search for travellers, have frequently owed their preservation to their dogs, in a manner which would seem to show that the dogs are endued with a presentiment of danger.

  20. I have a sort of presentiment that something will happen.

  21. She had a presentiment that something was about to happen.

  22. When poor Oswald Waring lay dead before me, I did not realize the crime more intensely than I had by presentiment a hundred times before.

  23. No foreboding was felt by any one; no token in sky or air, or circumstances without, of presentiment within their hearts, warned them of calamity, crime and sudden death at hand.

  24. Nitchinof had in her subconsciousness a presentiment of her end and that she transmitted this presentiment across some thousands of miles, from Kazan to Geneva, to a person with whom she had never been intimate.

  25. I have always a presentiment that I am leaving Warsaw never to return to it; I am convinced that I shall say an eternal farewell to my native country.

  26. I have already refused some invitations for the evening, as if I had had a presentiment of it--for I think of you in almost everything I undertake.

  27. I have always a presentiment that I shall leave Warsaw never to return to it; I am convinced that I shall say farewell to my home for ever.

  28. I was wondering this afternoon if people always had a presentiment when trouble was coming.

  29. I have a presentiment I shall run over an only child before I reach Chelmsford, my first stage.

  30. He, on the other hand, wanting another franc, dodges me round those trees at the corner, and at the back door; and I have a presentiment upon me that I shall fall a sacrifice to his cupidity at last.

  31. If you had entertained a presentiment that it would afford me sincere pleasure and delight to hear from a warm-hearted and admiring reader of my books in the backwoods of America, you would not have been far wrong.

  32. But, whatever this presentiment be worth, it was no protection against the dismay and disgust, which I felt, in consequence of the dreadful misgiving, of which I have been relating the history.

  33. I had no guarantee yet, that that presentiment would be realized.

  34. A strong presentiment that my existing opinions would ultimately give way, and that the grounds of them were unsound, was not a sufficient warrant for disclosing the state of my mind.

  35. I went down at once to Sicily, and the presentiment grew stronger.

  36. He felt drawn to him without knowing why, and he had a presentiment that the American would drag him out of his quiet life into a very different existence.

  37. But I am getting old, and my nerves are shaken, and a secret presentiment tells me I shall be bagged before long, and delivered over to the tormentors.

  38. She had a presentiment that before long she would he on her way to join the yacht, though at first sight it seemed rather improbable, for, as Claudius had guessed, she had a great many engagements for visits.

  39. Because I had a sort of presentiment of your knavery!

  40. He had a presentiment of his approaching death when he didn't want to send the child back to the country; and I presumed to scold him, villain that I am!

  41. I think a presentiment of danger made her pray for Guy too.

  42. I had seen the latter fall a hundred times without feeling the presentiment that seemed to tighten round my heart as I galloped up to the spot.

  43. And suddenly a strange presentiment flashed through the black day right into her, a presentiment that she was destined very often, so many times that she could not count them, to drive with that curve round those beds.

  44. I was restless, I had such a strange presentiment: I had a presentiment .

  45. Oh, what a gloomy house it was and how strange was the presentiment that she would so often be coming here now, that she would have to mingle some part of herself with this gloomy Dutch domestic atmosphere!

  46. She now went up the stairs, which wound in their ascent and were quite dark; and, because the strange presentiment also forced itself upon her on the stairs, she resisted it, put it from her.

  47. Then I knew that my presentiment was right, that he was dead.


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