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    presentiment


    1. He had had a strong presentiment that the couple were


    2. presentiment of a growing storm on the horizon


    3. The three of them were chatting as if they were the best of buddies, but the atmosphere was one of artificial cordiality laced with presentiment


    4. He had a presentiment of his death, but he went, as so many others have gone,


    5. ‘I have a very strong presentiment that we’ve been invited to this dinner to test us


    6. without the least presentiment


    7. Pain is a presentiment of disease and if not removed this Blockage


    8. Is that sense a presentiment of an emotion?


    9. Then a horrid presentiment laid cold fingers on her heart


    10.  presentir, to forebode, have a presentiment of

    11. presentir to have a presentiment


    12. I had a presentiment


    13. though it wasn't a presentiment really, for you seem to have fallen from heaven


    14. "I have a presentiment, Dounia


    15. He had a sort of presentiment that for to-day, at least, he might consider himself out of danger


    16. Without understanding what she wanted, he had the presentiment of something terrible


    17. I have a presentiment


    18. Is he turning out a bit of hypocrite, and coming into the country to work mischief under a cloak? I mused: I had a presentiment in the bottom of my heart that he had better have remained away


    19. "Well, Nelly," said he, riding into the yard one morning, too early not to alarm me with an instant presentiment of bad news, "it's yours and my turn to go into mourning at present


    20. Of this then, which every soul of man pursues and makes the end of all his actions, having a presentiment that there is such an end, and yet hesitating because neither knowing the nature nor having the same assurance of this as of other things, and therefore losing whatever good there is in other things,--of a principle such and so great as this ought the best men in our State, to whom everything is entrusted, to be in the darkness of ignorance?

    21. "I have neither a fear, nor a presentiment, nor a hope of death


    22. How was it that a presentiment did not warn Mercedes that her lover was within three hundred yards of her?


    23. Seized with a sad presentiment, he began to run with all the strength he had left and in a few minutes he reached the field where the little white house had once stood


    24. For I had a presentiment that I should never be there again, and I felt that the dying light was suited to my last view of it


    25. I persuaded myself that I knew he was taken; that there was something more upon my mind than a fear or a presentiment; that the fact had occurred, and I had a mysterious knowledge of it


    26. "I had a presentiment that you would come this evening


    27. Her presentiment that all would again go on in the old way had not deceived her


    28. Everything which had been disconnected before began at once to assume its true place, and I had a shadowy presentiment of the whole sequence of events


    29. "He had some presentiment that worthy footsteps would follow close behind him


    30. He had a sort of presentiment that for to‐day, at least, he might consider himself out of danger

    31. Hearing these terrible remarks, I received an awful presentiment


    32. Even Caesar's fortune at one time was, but a grand presentiment


    33. But the moment of vocation had come, and before he got down from his chair, the world was made new to him by a presentiment of endless processes filling the vast spaces planked out of his sight by that wordy ignorance which he had supposed to be knowledge


    34. Casaubon, and she had felt the waking of a presentiment that there might be a sad consciousness in his life which made as great a need on his side as on her own


    35. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment


    36. She had no presentiment that the power which her husband wished to establish over her future action had relation to anything else than his work


    37. Vincy uttered that presentiment about Rosamond, she herself had never had the idea that she should be driven to make the sort of appeal which he foresaw


    38. He had no doubt that the affection was there, and had no presentiment that he had done anything to repel it


    39. Bulstrode was only the more conscious that there was a deposit of uneasy presentiment in his wife's mind, because she carefully avoided any allusion to it


    40. Farebrother, whose hopes entered strongly into the same current with Lydgate's, and who knew nothing about him that could now raise a melancholy presentiment, left him with affectionate congratulation

    41. Without understanding what she wanted, he had the presentiment ofsomething terrible


    42. To comprehend a presentiment I’d been fending off for years, I had to hear you discuss me on a panel, in front of three hundred students


    43. Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all I can do


    44. Her presentiment at the time had not deceived her- that that state of freedom and readiness


    45. Yes, it was the same flesh, the same chair a canon, the sight of which had even then filled him with horror, as by a presentiment


    46. ‘I was never pleased at Bolkonski’s engagement to Natasha,’ said the countess, ‘but I always wanted Nicholas to marry the princess, and had a presentiment that it would happen


    47. Anna Pavlovna’s presentiment was in fact fulfilled


    48. Anna Pavlovna’s presentiment was justified, and all that morning a joyously festive mood reigned in the city


    49. Is he turning out a bit of a hypocrite, and coming into the country to work mischief under a cloak? I mused: I had a presentiment in the bottom of my heart that he had better have remained away


    50. ‘I have neither a fear, nor a presentiment, nor a hope


































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    Synonyms for "presentiment"

    boding foreboding premonition presentiment intuition feeling clue anticipation prescience hunch

    "presentiment" definitions

    a feeling of evil to come