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  • Was it a premonition of Max's death?†   (source)
  • We laughed at Miss Shazia's premonition, but then I started having bad dreams too.†   (source)
  • So maybe you have this premonition that there is something fundamentally incompatible and you're preempting the preemption.†   (source)
  • A premonition?†   (source)
  • Dr. Pierce—an avid surfer himself who knew me well through our sport and also our churchlater told me he had a premonition that it was me.†   (source)
  • Owen had prepared a small sermon on the subject of lust, a feeling he would later describe as A TRUTHFUL PREMONITION THAT DAMNATION IS FOR REAL.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt an uneasy premonition.†   (source)
  • Somehow I'd had a premonition of this, from the way her face was when she started asking about it.†   (source)
  • Was there some premonition, she would wonder, that made that moment so poignant, some foreknowledge that this was the last afternoon the three would ever spend together in the small cottage?†   (source)
  • She had a premonition.†   (source)
  • There's a shiver of premonition about it somehow, as if perhaps he had an intimation that this tiny mysterious piece would be one of the very few works to outlive him.†   (source)
  • I'm not the kind of person who's prone to premonitions or overconfidence, so I suspected that there was more to my flash than magical thinking.†   (source)
  • His heart pounded as a terrible premonition gripped him.†   (source)
  • I was sure I was having premonitions that Lio had not escaped after all.†   (source)
  • There had been a brittle quality to her, something unyielding, a young person who carried about her a premonition of old age.†   (source)
  • We sat now, waiting for 9:30, tense and upright in the high-backed wooden chairs, avoiding as if by a kind of premonition the cushioned and comfortable seats.†   (source)
  • All week long the thought of his own ending had been on his mind like a ...well, like a (Go on, say it) like a premonition, Death?†   (source)
  • But Michael remained happy and free, without the faintest premonition that anything would ever change, or needed to.†   (source)
  • I always have this premonition that The Black Sun is headed for a crash.†   (source)
  • But his good intentions were shattered by the strength of Clara's premonitions.†   (source)
  • And I'm sure she had no premonition of the poverty and hardship she'd have to face in the years ahead.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino had often thought, with no premonitory intention, that this would not be a propitious place for dying in a state of grace.†   (source)
  • It was as if she had a premonition of some approaching disaster.†   (source)
  • It was late in the summer and we were all seated around the kitchen table making our plans to go to El Puerto for the harvest when my mother with strange premonition remembered Narciso.†   (source)
  • Signals ....and they filled her with premonition.†   (source)
  • It appears that one way or another, my premonitions were right.†   (source)
  • I understood the neurochemistry of my brain, the meaning of dreams (the waste material of premonitions).†   (source)
  • Psychic abilities, premonitions, and intuition are simply a product of the interplay among experience, common sense, and accumulated knowledge.†   (source)
  • She had a sudden, fearful premonition, so strong she almost cried out.†   (source)
  • His promise fell, soft as a premonition, followed by the bobcat's predatory growl, 'Me too.'†   (source)
  • Ida: and he felt an eerie premonition, as though he were old, walking years from now through familiar streets where no one knew or noticed him, thinking of his lost love, and wondering, Where is she now?†   (source)
  • An abrupt panic, like a warning premonition, makes it impossible for me to speak for a long moment.†   (source)
  • After his sharp words at Sister's graveside, she'd felt a terrible premonition that he would leave Missing, but in the ensuing days he had proved true to her, returning to sleep on the sofa.†   (source)
  • I should have taken that as a premonition.†   (source)
  • A premonition.†   (source)
  • He was much given to premonitions—had had them all his life—and he had a premonition now.†   (source)
  • All were engrossed in early-night reminiscences about dreams, figures, premonitions.†   (source)
  • "What is it?" she inquired of Mandy, with a premonition of disaster in her tones.†   (source)
  • Did he have any premonition of his death?†   (source)
  • That little article was a premonition of things to come.†   (source)
  • He experienced a keen premonition of danger and wondered if the chaplain too were plotting against him, if the chaplain's reticent, unimpressive manner were really just a sinister disguise masking a fiery ambition that, 'way down deep, was crafty and unscrupulous.†   (source)
  • But as we drew close to the Golden Gate, I had a premonition that I was riding with someone I was meant to be with, and definitely someone I liked to be with.†   (source)
  • And in early November, Byron Skelton of the Texas Democratic National Committee will have a premonition that JFK may be placing himself in grave danger by coming to Dallas.†   (source)
  • But those premonitions proved correct, in a way I hadn't been at all prepared for, on the first day back in public school, when the shape of what I truly had to deal with appeared to me for the first time.†   (source)
  • Beset by morbid premonitions, she imagined their separation as prelude to the "still more painful one" of his death, or her own.†   (source)
  • Was it possible the professor had had a premonition of his own murder?†   (source)
  • Apart from this premonition of yours called Cyclops, we have no clue where Svensson's hiding out, assuming he's the person we should be looking for.†   (source)
  • It was like a premonition.†   (source)
  • Prone to premonitions, she once dreamt that her filly had climbed a tree and called her trainer in the middle of the night to see if the dream had come true.†   (source)
  • Neither of us had any premonitions.†   (source)
  • She thought dimly that there had been premonitory echoes of this theme in all of Richard Halley's work, through all the years of his long struggle, to the day, in his middle-age, when fame struck him suddenly and knocked him out.†   (source)
  • A premonition, if you will.†   (source)
  • I look at her, empty of premonition.†   (source)
  • Premonition weighed on Joe's eyes, and when he closed them, the darkness behind his lids swarmed with possibilities that he was terrified to consider.†   (source)
  • Fremantle stared at him, transfixed, trying to sense a premonition.†   (source)
  • My mind's eye began to fill with flood upon flood of conflicting premonitions of what was to come.†   (source)
  • He was not one for premonitions, and had never felt any sense of destiny about himself, but now, with his cheek pressed against the cold wood of the rifle, he was sure he would pull the trigger that would send the bullet through the heart of the wolf.†   (source)
  • He remembered the moment often, not because of his disgust or humiliation, but because it was then that he had the first premonition that someday he would tell his story, tell what it was like to he at the Institute, an eyewitness report on the contours and lineaments of discipline.†   (source)
  • He took off the Ring, moved it may be by some deep premonition of danger, though to himself he thought only that he wished to see more clearly.†   (source)
  • Having a premonition as to its cause, Tak was grateful that it did not ring at another hour.†   (source)
  • But when I prayed at Mass this morning I had a ...a premonition—yes, the same, a premonition, and was filled with this slowly mounting frightful sensation.†   (source)
  • But with the passage of time, I could look back on them and see them bringing me news, discoveries, premonitions, promises—I still can; they still do.†   (source)
  • An uneasiness began to rise in her, a kind of premonition.†   (source)
  • One night I had a premonition that the war had come close.†   (source)
  • He had almost reached the narrow road along the edge of the sands when some premonition, some half-glimpsed movement, made him stop.†   (source)
  • It is only that I love you very much, and that if anything happened—I don't have any bad premonitions, dear, but you and I know that a bad thing could happen—well, if anything happened I would want the child to have your name.†   (source)
  • MIRACLE
    He was on His way from Bethany to Jerusalem,
    Languishing under the sadness of premonitions.†   (source)
  • He told them he had a premonition he would die soon, and he was homesick for Ireland, and wanted to go back there to die.†   (source)
  • and when they heard the word "Father they looked at each other with curiosity and with an uneasy premonition.†   (source)
  • Arguing against her dull premonitions, she told herself that the season had been good, and Dick quite pleased; he had paid a hundred pounds off the mortgage, and had enough in hand to carry them over the next year without borrowing.†   (source)
  • She quickly wrapped her hand in the corner of her apron and dismissed the premonition.   (source)
    premonition = feeling that something will happen
  • He sat exactly where you are now, and he asked me if I believed in supernatural premonitions.†   (source)
  • She could not explain her dread, her sense of premonition.†   (source)
  • But he still had not sensed the premonition of his fate.†   (source)
  • She could not reply, for the premonition was on her: her mother's face.†   (source)
  • I realized while listening to Kaitlyn that I didn't have a premonition of hurting him.†   (source)
  • He had pushed it back, but even before he did he'd had a premonition of what he was going to see.†   (source)
  • Did the lad have some kind of premonition?†   (source)
  • She felt a premonition, a sense of low sureness.†   (source)
  • It was a supposition that was so neat, so convincing that she identified it as a premonition.†   (source)
  • When she came to Rosa's door, she stopped, gripped by a premonition.†   (source)
  • She could not know it was a premonition.†   (source)
  • The presence of Amparo Moscote in the house was like a premonition.†   (source)
  • Since then the premonitions had abandoned him.†   (source)
  • His efforts to systematize his premonitions were useless.†   (source)
  • People had a premonition that this game was related to something much bigger.†   (source)
  • She had a premonition that chaos was rising.†   (source)
  • I had a creepy, otherworldly premonition that we were going to find Scootchie now.†   (source)
  • It was a silly premonition—what could be worse than today?†   (source)
  • And I felt in our final a strong premonition not to let him go.†   (source)
  • The answer that explained my strange premonition.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she hated Doris's premonitions.†   (source)
  • I had the premonition that Naomi was gone forever.†   (source)
  • I had a premonition that we would find the bleeder behind the liver.†   (source)
  • He had never had a premonition, but he had heard of them happening, particularly on the battlefield.†   (source)
  • He was much given to premonitions—had had them all his life—and he had a premonition now.†   (source)
  • Why this strange premonition thatshe would be the one to walk away from our confrontation?†   (source)
  • "Well, there goes Miss Clytie," the ladies said, and one of them had a premonition about her.†   (source)
  • It was not a premonition; it was an unconscious form of knowledge.†   (source)
  • Call it not a memory, but a premonition.†   (source)
  • Had she wished to affect him with some sort of premonition?†   (source)
  • We conversed of signs, omens, premonitions, riddles and dreams, and ended in fierce, cold sleep.†   (source)
  • Bit of an odd premonition, isn't it?†   (source)
  • It's a mystery, then, how people can have premonitions while sleeping, how they can do something unconsciously that has defeated our greatest sages.†   (source)
  • Though I was only too aware how strangely Hobie looked at me at times, how crazy I must seem to him, still I existed in a low-grade fog of internal clangor: starting up every time someone came to the door; jumping as if scalded when the phone rang; jolted by electric-shock "premonitions" that—mid class—would compel me to rise from my desk and rush straight home to make sure that the painting was still in the pillowcase, that no one had disturbed the wrapping or tried to scratch up the tape.†   (source)
  • If you gave me a peso for every premonition, dream, admonition we've been told this month, we'd be able to —†   (source)
  • Once, long ago, the elf Maerzadi had a premonition that he would accidentally kill his son in battle.†   (source)
  • She was surprised that he was not in the little park, as he had been so many times despite the rain, and that she had received no sign of any kind from him, not even a premonition, and she was shaken by the sudden idea that he had died.†   (source)
  • —from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan Jessica awoke in the dark, feeling premonition in the stillness around her.†   (source)
  • Premonitions?†   (source)
  • PREMONITION OFWAR Two hours later, Trianna returned, leading a pair of warriors who carried a limp body between them.†   (source)
  • He felt a sudden depression mixed with a black premonition that it wasn't going to work, that they were crazy to even think it might.†   (source)
  • Was he granted asylum by the embassy or was he caught and locked up in La Fortaleza as my premonitions keep telling me?†   (source)
  • Awful premonitions.†   (source)
  • The bedroom was large and bright, with an English bed protected by mosquito netting embroidered in pink, and two windows open to the trees in the patio, where one could hear the clamor of cicadas, giddy with premonitions of rain.†   (source)
  • Stella Horan thought it was paint, but I had a premonition, just like the time my brother got hit by a hay truck.†   (source)
  • She clung to the last threads of sleep in order to avoid facing the fatality of another morning full of sinister premonitions, while he awoke with the innocence of a newborn: each new day was one more day he had won.†   (source)
  • Then the crimson sky was torn apart and Eragon again beheld the two armies from his premonition in the Beor Mountains.†   (source)
  • It was then that Alba entered the nightmare that her grandmother had apparently not seen on her astrological chart when she was born, and that Luisa Mora had seen in a fleeting premonition.†   (source)
  • A shiver crawled down Eragon's left side as he recalled his premonition: banks of warriors colliding upon an orange and yellow field, accompanied by the harsh screams of gore-crows and the whistle of black arrows.†   (source)
  • But Pedro Tercero had had a premonition of the ferocity of the new regime long before anyone else, perhaps because during those three years he had come to know the armed forces and no longer believed that they were any different from those elsewhere in the world.†   (source)
  • And so she thought about him as she never could have imagined thinking about anyone, having premonitions that he would be where he was not, wanting him to be where he could not be, awaking with a start, with the physical sensation that he was looking at her in the darkness while she slept, so that on the afternoon when she heard his resolute steps on the yellow leaves in the little park it was difficult for her not to think this was yet another trick of her imagination.†   (source)
  • A chill crept along Eragon's spine, for he recognized the scene from his premonition while rafting the Az Ragni to Hedarth:A man sprawled in the clotted mud with a dented helm and bloody mail-his face concealed behind an upthrown arm.†   (source)
  • He compared her with the oldest memory that he had of her, the afternoon when he had the premonition that a pot of boiling soup was going to fall off the table, and he found her broken to pieces.†   (source)
  • She preferred not to torment her daughter with earthly demands, for she had a premonition that her daughter was a heavenly being, and that she was not destined to last very long in the vulgar traffic of this world.†   (source)
  • It must be a premonition.†   (source)
  • They became intimate friends, and from that day on they met every Friday to summon spirits and exchange recipes and premonitions.†   (source)
  • But when they condemned him to death and asked him to state his last wish, he did not have the least difficulty in identifying the premonition that inspired his answer.†   (source)
  • Clara taught her how to take care of birds and speak to each of them in its own language, as well as how to read the premonitions in nature and knit chain-stitch scarves for the poor.†   (source)
  • Premonitions may be linked to the very nature and fabric of magic ....or they may function in a similar way to the dragons' ancestral memories.†   (source)
  • On occasion they were so natural that he identified them as premonitions only after they had been fulfilled.†   (source)
  • During the day, she went about half in a dream, seeing premonitions in the animals' behavior: the hens were not laying their daily eggs, the cows were acting frightened, the dogs were howling to death, the rats, spiders, and worms were coming out of their hiding places, the birds were leaving their nests and flying off in great formations, while her pigeons were screaming with hunger in the treetops.†   (source)
  • Alone, abandoned by his premonitions, fleeing the chill that was to accompany him until death, he sought a last refuge in Macondo in the warmth of his oldest memories.†   (source)
  • Since the beginning of adolescence, when he had begun to be aware of his premonitions, he thought that death would be announced with a definite, unequivocal, irrevocable signal, but there were only a few hours left before he would die and the signal had not come.†   (source)
  • He passed the gravel road and rounded the bend, his stomach dropping as his premonition proved right.†   (source)
  • Still, as he climbed down, he felt a nagging premonition that whatever he had come here for still wasn't over—and was, in fact, only beginning.†   (source)
  • A bad premonition gnawed at her gut.†   (source)
  • Was that a premonition?†   (source)
  • The gunslinger looked at the depersonalized mote doing its faraway acrobatics, feeling nothing but a premonition of sorrow.†   (source)
  • In that instant, no shivers pricked the hairs on the back of his neck, no premonitions burst forth like exploding fireworks; he felt no sense of foreboding at all, and looking back—considering all that was to come—he was always amazed by that.†   (source)
  • A premonition is all, my love.†   (source)
  • Of the overwhelming convulsion soon to come in France, of the violent end in the offing for the whole European world Adams had come to know, he appears to have had few if any premonitions, no more than anyone else.†   (source)
  • I had a sudden premonition that I'd run over her, that I'd find her body wedged beneath the car, and as the horrible vision passed in front of my eyes, I felt my stomach muscles constrict.†   (source)
  • Then he let out a piercing shriek suddenly and bolted toward the door in a headlong dash back toward the enlisted men's apartment for his camera, only to be halted in his tracks with another frantic shriek by the dreadful, freezing premonition that this whole lovely, lurid, rich and colorful pagan paradise would be snatched away from him irredeemably if he were to let it out of his sight for even an instant.†   (source)
  • I have lived these nineteen years in full premonition of that time when a man would come into my heart, into my life, and thrill me with love, passion and romance.†   (source)
  • Premonition swelled in him again.†   (source)
  • He said, "About that premonition stuff.†   (source)
  • Premonition?†   (source)
  • Dewey envisions them: the captive family, meek and frightened but without any premonition of their destiny.†   (source)
  • A premonition?†   (source)
  • She knew that Lexie was upset— this was less a premonition than a reading of the obvious—and it had everything to do with Jeremy leaving.†   (source)
  • If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century—any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America—or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.†   (source)
  • That was the thing about premonitions; while they might be accurate in the short term, anything beyond that was impossible to know.†   (source)
  • As I raised the helmet, I heard a shot from outside, and with that shot I felt a premonition of doom.†   (source)
  • And when this music stopped, it was like that, and suddenly I knew—I had this premonition—that I would never hear such music again.†   (source)
  • Among the unfortunates was Stefan Zaorski, who lacked a work permit and had already confided to Sophie his premonition that he would get into serious trouble.†   (source)
  • When the speedy little three-car electric train in which she was riding screeched to a halt somewhere in the outskirts of Warsaw she had something more powerful than a mere premonition.†   (source)
  • We looked at one another in greater fear of her than ever before in our lives, and we would have run away or spoken to her first, except for a premonition that this time was the last, this demand the final one.†   (source)
  • Josie lay drifting in the chair, and where she drifted was through the summertime, the way of the past.... It seemed to her that there should have been more time for the monkey-man-for the premonition, the organ coming from the distance, the crisis in the house, "Is there a penny upstairs or down?†   (source)
  • It was nothing so grand as what might be called a premonition—this clammy feeling which overtook me, in which the day darkened swiftly, along with my contentment—but I was suddenly ill-at-ease enough to long desperately to escape, to rush from the train.†   (source)
  • But that impression—of a certain amount of learning, of casually expressed good manners, of sophistication—made me cringe at my raw ignorance and the benighted seizure I had had on the subway train, with my simpleminded premonition of squalid gloom and cultural deprivation.†   (source)
  • So on the wet gray morning in November when Sophie, kneeling alone in St. Mary's church, had that premonition she earlier described and leaped up and rushed back to the university—there to discover the glorious medieval courtyard cordoned off by German troops who held one hundred and eighty faculty members captive beneath their rifles and machine guns—the Professor and Kazik were among the unlucky ones shivering in the cold, hands clawing at the heavens.†   (source)
  • She had to walk only a few paces, but even as she did so, swaying, she sensed something wrong, sensed a ghastly error in tactics and timing: the moment she placed her hand on the cool plastic surface of the radio she had a premonition of disaster which filled the space of the room like a soundless scream.†   (source)
  • "That's perfectly wonderful," I murmured, and I meant it, having totally forgotten how in the recent past such ecstatic moments with their premonitions of even greater delight had almost always been a brightness that blinded the eyes to onrushing disaster.†   (source)
  • Some premonitory part of her was convinced that if the boy ever came to serious harm, it would be in that dark place with the sawdust spread over the old grease on the plank floor.†   (source)
  • There were all kinds of Guatemalan birds in cages along the passageways, and premonitory curlews, and swamp herons with long yellow legs, and a young stag who came in through the windows to eat the anthurium in the flowerpots.†   (source)
  • At five in the morning he chose the squad by lot, formed it in the courtyard, and woke up the condemned man with a premonitory phrase.†   (source)
  • He crossed a yellow plain where the echo repeated one's thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages.†   (source)
  • And what is still ineffaceable about my first glimpse of her is not simply the lovely simulacrum she seemed to me of the dead girl but the despair on her face worn as Maria surely must have worn it, along with the premonitory, grieving shadows of someone hurtling headlong toward death.†   (source)
  • I had a premonition—I don't know what else you'd call it—the other day.†   (source)
  • Mr. Cust said abruptly: "Are you at all subject to premonitions, Miss Lily?†   (source)
  • Yet I am struck still as I walk by sudden premonitions of what is to come.†   (source)
  • He had a premonition that he was running his life out too fast.†   (source)
  • "I had a premonition it was you, Helmholtz," he shouted as he opened.†   (source)
  • The second part began with nearer premonitions on the trumpets.†   (source)
  • I had a premonition, I don't know what else you'd call it—†   (source)
  • Or perhaps it is rather that Nature, in her most irrational mood, has traced in invisible ink on the walls of the mind a premonition which these great artists confirm; a sketch which only needs to be held to the fire of genius to become visible.†   (source)
  • When daylight began to come, by premonition, the boy found that he was standing among a crowd of people like himself.†   (source)
  • His premonition of disaster was correct from the beginning; and like a ranting actress in an indifferent play, I might say that we have paid for freedom.†   (source)
  • Bishop Latour's premonition was right: Father Vaillant never returned to share his work in New Mexico.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I do believe in premonitions.†   (source)
  • The mother went on reading: 'Did any premonition touch young Juan that night that he, too, in a few short years, would be numbered among the martyrs?†   (source)
  • She was Irish enough to believe in second sight, especially where death premonitions were concerned, and in his wide gray eyes she saw some deep sadness which she could only interpret as that of a man who has felt the cold finger on his shoulder, has heard the wail of the Banshee.†   (source)
  • Warned by some premonition, I noticed with care where she laid my hat and coat, and was then shown into a warm and well-lighted room and requested to wait.†   (source)
  • It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death.†   (source)
  • He had always told his mother and sisters that he had a premonition that he would be in heaven before them.†   (source)
  • I knew now why I had bought that picture postcard as a child; it was a premonition, a blank step into the future.†   (source)
  • As time went on and the novelty of the second phase began to wear off and become habit, he would stand in the kitchen door and look out across the dusk and see, perhaps with foreboding and premonition, the savage and lonely street which he had chosen of his own will, waiting for him, thinking This is not my life.†   (source)
  • Tingling with premonition she came down stairs, and found Gant wringing his hands and moaning as he walked up and down the washroom.†   (source)
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