All 4 Uses of
presentiment
in
The Mill on the Floss
- He noticed that she was tremulous, and he had a presentiment of the subject she was going to speak about.†
Chpt 6.4 *
- The presentiment made his voice colder and harder as he said, "What is it?"†
Chpt 6.4
- In fact, poor Maggie, with all her inward consciousness of a painful past and her presentiment of a troublous future, was on the way to become an object of some envy,—a topic of discussion in the newly established billiard-room, and between fair friends who had no secrets from each other on the subject of trimmings.†
Chpt 6.6
- Where, then, would be all the memories of early striving; all the deep pity for another's pain, which had been nurtured in her through years of affection and hardship; all the divine presentiment of something higher than mere personal enjoyment, which had made the sacredness of life?†
Chpt 6.13
Definition:
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(presentiment) a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) -- especially of something evil or bad