Both Uses of
foreboding
in
Gone with the Wind
- With foreboding, Mammy had brought her young mistress a small package, addressed in a strange hand from New Orleans, a package containing a miniature of Ellen, which she flung to the floor with a cry, four letters in her own handwriting to Philippe Robillard, and a brief letter from a New Orleans priest, announcing the death of her cousin in a barroom brawl.†
Chpt 1.3
- She paced the floor in her bare feet, her nightgown clinging to her legs and the more she walked the stronger became her foreboding.†
Chpt 3.20 *
Definition:
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(foreboding) a feeling that something bad is going to happen