All 5 Uses of
foreboding
in
War and Peace
- Her brother had guessed right: the little princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her fate, her father-in-law, and her husband.†
Chpt 1
- The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostov was more and more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds.†
Chpt 3 *
- 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.†
Chpt 10
- And a consciousness of this, and a foreboding that Moscow would be taken, was present in Russian Moscow society in 1812.†
Chpt 11
- He did not know why, but he felt a foreboding that he would not carry out his intention.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(foreboding) a feeling that something bad is going to happen