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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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    It was the most fearful kind of presentiment, because it was based on reality.†  (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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    I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me.†  (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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    He seemed to be working in obedience to some particular presentiment.†  (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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    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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    To presentiments?†  (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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    Her letters beat like great pulses; they were filled with the excitement of new cities, presentiments of abundant life.†  (source)
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    Lourdes arrives home with a presentiment of disaster.†  (source)
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