Why do I feel a
foreboding that you have appealed to him in vain?
Some dim sense of
foreboding was beginning to steal in upon him.
The long absence of the uncle and nephew had occasioned some disquiet in the minds of all whom they had left behind them; and the more, as, during the preceding dialogue, the uncle had more than once elevated his voice, so as to be heard downstairs; which, though they could not distinguish what he said, had caused some evil
foreboding in Nancy and her mother, and, indeed, even in Jones himself.
Apart from this
foreboding, things went on much as usual in the Poyser household.
Raoul, with pessimistic
foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.
"He had always thought what he said then." And she recalled in all its detail the night at Bald Hills before he had the last stroke, when with a
foreboding of disaster she had remained at home against his will.
It was one of those less lowering, but still grey and gloomy enough mornings of the transition, when with a fair wind the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity, that as I mounted to the deck at the call of the forenoon watch, so soon as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail,
foreboding shivers ran over me.
"Catherine would make a sad, heedless young housekeeper to be sure," was her mother's
foreboding remark; but quick was the consolation of there being nothing like practice.
So although the heart of Deirdre was sad and heavy with
foreboding of evil, they set sail for the land of Erin.
- Last Christmas I was a bride, with a heart overflowing with present bliss, and full of ardent hopes for the future, though not unmingled with
foreboding fears.
Thus did Zarathustra hear a soothsayer speak; and the
foreboding touched his heart and transformed him.
A rush of troubled waters floods her soul, While black
forebodings rise from deeps unknown And the cold trail of fear creeps round her heart.