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presentiment
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    Presentiment that long shadow passes over, and we are the startled grass.†  (source)
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    I mused: I had a presentiment in the bottom of my heart that he had better have remained away.†  (source)
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    But on the day that was to fulfil my wishes and my destiny, she was melancholy, and a presentiment of evil pervaded her; and perhaps also she thought of the dreadful secret which I had promised to reveal to her on the following day.†  (source)
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    However, my tenderest feelings are about to receive a shock: such is my presentiment; stay now, to see whether it will be realised.†  (source)
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    My presentiments of my father's plan were surpassed by the actuality.†  (source)
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    She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell.†  (source)
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    She stood on the landing, turning over and over in her hand this curt and mysterious epistle, her mind a blank, her nerves strained with agitation and a presentiment she could not very well have explained.†  (source)
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    For, as it was impossible to assign a reason for such distrust and abhorrence, so Mr. Dimmesdale, conscious that the poison of one morbid spot was infecting his heart's entire substance, attributed all his presentiments to no other cause.†  (source)
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    It was the most fearful kind of presentiment, because it was based on reality.†  (source)
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    To presentiments?†  (source)
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    Lourdes arrives home with a presentiment of disaster.†  (source)
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    Her letters beat like great pulses; they were filled with the excitement of new cities, presentiments of abundant life.†  (source)
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    Finding my seat at last, I was overcome with a presentiment of worse things to come.†  (source)
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