All 5 Uses of
foreboding
in
The House of Mirth
- That both should be missing struck her with foreboding; and she charmed Mr. Rosedale by proposing that they should make their way to the conservatories at the farther end of the house.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- He saw instead, to his surprise, Ned Silverton loitering somewhat ostentatiously about the tables; and the discovery that this actor in the drama was not only hovering in the wings, but actually inviting the exposure of the footlights, though it might have seemed to imply that all peril was over, served rather to deepen Selden's sense of foreboding.†
Chpt 2.3
- This surprising event, coinciding too completely with her meeting with Dorset to be regarded as contingent upon it, had yet immediately struck Lily with a vague sense of foreboding.†
Chpt 2.6
- In that temple of art no raw beginners were wanted, and Miss Haines would have been more than human had she not taken a certain pleasure in seeing her forebodings confirmed.†
Chpt 2.10
- Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
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(foreboding) a feeling that something bad is going to happen