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  • He had the kind of superstition which runs not to avoiding black cats, walking around ladders, or carrying talismans, but to nervous presentiment and an obscure sense of the stirrings of omens and portents.†   (source)
  • I believe in every foolish presentiment that comes into my head.   (source)
  • I have a presentiment that it must be a girl.   (source)
  • He seemed to be working in obedience to some particular presentiment.   (source)
  • I still held it with the presentiment that a need for it would come.   (source)
  • Anne's presentiment proved more trustworthy than presentiments are apt to do.   (source)
    presentiment = premonition (a feeling that something will happen)
  • Anne's presentiment proved more trustworthy than presentiments are apt to do.   (source)
  • We've gone and lost your father's flat, Diana, and I have a presentiment that we'll not be allowed to row on the pond any more.   (source)
  • They finished their second cup in a silence furrowed by presentiments, and when she spoke again it was to ask a maid to bring her the folder of letters.†   (source)
  • He not only believed it, he also discussed it several times with Transito Ariza during the two years of Fermina Daza's wedding trip, and he continued to believe it with a feeling of boundless freedom until one fateful Sunday when, with no warning and no presentiments, he saw her leaving High Mass on her husband's arm, besieged by the curiosity and flattery of her new world.†   (source)
  • At least now he could live without seeing Fermina Daza, instead of interrupting whatever he was doing at any hour of the day to search for her along the uncertain pathways of his presentiments, on the most unlikely streets, in unreal places where she could not possibly be, wandering without reason, with a longing in his breast that gave him no rest until he saw her, even for an instant.†   (source)
  • It was the most fearful kind of presentiment, because it was based on reality.†   (source)
  • A bite at light at Ruth a truth a sky-blue presentiment and oh how dear we are to ourselves when it comes, it comes, that long, long shadow in the grass.†   (source)
  • They had sent her with a government scholarship to study secondary education, with her petate and her little tin trunk as small as a doll's, and from the moment she walked off the boat, with her high white shoes and her golden braid, he had the awful presentiment that they were going to take many Sunday siestas together.†   (source)
  • It did not matter to me what I looked at; from any observation I would conclude that a secret of life had been nearly revealed to me— for I was obsessed with notions about concealment, and from the smallest gesture of a stranger I would wrest what was to me a communication or a presentiment.†   (source)
  • Her speech had taken on the swollen-tongued quality which I had learned was a presentiment of unruly thinking and difficult behavior.†   (source)
  • My presentiments of my father's plan were surpassed by the actuality.†   (source)
  • To presentiments?†   (source)
  • Her letters beat like great pulses; they were filled with the excitement of new cities, presentiments of abundant life.†   (source)
  • It's not the first time that my presentiments have been fulfilled.†   (source)
  • Something seen, but indescribable, which filled him with dreadful presentiments?†   (source)
  • Outward portents and inward presentiments were his.†   (source)
  • Should we have the same presentiments if our existences did not touch at the heart?†   (source)
  • In the great days, presentiments hover before me, far before me in the firmament.†   (source)
  • Presentiments of strange discoveries hovered round me.†   (source)
  • Do you ever have presentiments, Mr Flintwinch?'†   (source)
  • Do you believe in presentiments, my friend?†   (source)
  • Rodolphe with Madame Bovary was talking dreams, presentiments, magnetism.†   (source)
  • What nonsense, with your presentiments, mother!†   (source)
  • I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.†   (source)
  • Of the presentiments which some people are always having, some surely must come right.†   (source)
  • I'll put Jasper Western against all the presentiments and circumstances in the colony.†   (source)
  • "Oh, but I," said Anne, "I also, duke, have had presentiments; I also have had dreams.†   (source)
  • Presentiments,—a sort of secret foreknowledge of events that are about to happen.†   (source)
  • At last, I received the proof that my presentiments had not deceived me, and I was rewarded for all my efforts on the day when I acquired the certainty that the Opera ghost was more than a mere shade.†   (source)
  • He remembered that during his epileptic fits, or rather immediately preceding them, he had always experienced a moment or two when his whole heart, and mind, and body seemed to wake up to vigour and light; when he became filled with joy and hope, and all his anxieties seemed to be swept away for ever; these moments were but presentiments, as it were, of the one final second (it was never more than a second) in which the fit came upon him.†   (source)
  • THIS same morning dawned for the prince pregnant with no less painful presentiments,—which fact his physical state was, of course, quite enough to account for; but he was so indefinably melancholy,—his sadness could not attach itself to anything in particular, and this tormented him more than anything else.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Sir Thomas's sending away his son seemed to her so like a parent's care, under the influence of a foreboding of evil to himself, that she could not help feeling dreadful presentiments; and as the long evenings of autumn came on, was so terribly haunted by these ideas, in the sad solitariness of her cottage, as to be obliged to take daily refuge in the dining-room of the Park.†   (source)
  • Never, till then, had I placed any confidence in presentiments, but now I cannot help believing them, Valentine.†   (source)
  • His surprise was great when he caught sight of Adam, but he was not a man given to presentiments of evil.†   (source)
  • They told each other the sorrows of the week, the presentiments, the anxiety for the letters; but now everything was forgotten; they gazed into each other's faces with voluptuous laughs, and tender names.†   (source)
  • He was already in a state of keen sensitiveness and hardly allayed agitation on the subject of ties in the past, and his presentiments were not agreeable.†   (source)
  • They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.†   (source)
  • Presentiments are strange things!†   (source)
  • Everything conspired to prove to d'Artagnan that his presentiments had not deceived him, and that a great misfortune had happened.†   (source)
  • His presentiments were realized, as we shall see, and his uneasy forebodings had goaded him pale and trembling to the gate under the chestnut-trees.†   (source)
  • "Ah, madame," said Porthos, in the most melancholy tone he could assume, "when we are about to enter upon a campaign—a campaign, in which my presentiments tell me I shall be killed—"†   (source)
  • But before the night was over he was compelled to give in, and own, as usual, to his wife's superior prudence and foresight, by the most melancholy confirmation of the presentiments which she had regarding the consequences of the mistake which he had made.†   (source)
  • I have no faith in your presentiments.†   (source)
  • I know nothing of presentiments, Sergeant; but I have known Jasper Eau-douce since he was a boy, and I have as much faith in his honesty as I have in my own, or that of the Sarpent himself.†   (source)
  • A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; and advice of the most important and applicable nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet.†   (source)
  • Catherine, meanwhile, undisturbed by presentiments of such an evil, or of any evil at all, except that of having but a short set to dance down, enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.†   (source)
  • He began telling her, however, that he would certainly find it, and she said that she would not hear of his getting up at dawn: it was lost: she knew that: she had had a presentiment when she put it on that afternoon.†   (source)
  • There was an ogre of my childhood which before my birth removed my only sister to its grim ogre-bourne and produced two half phantom children whom I was not encouraged, and did not desire, to associate with as if my late-born solitude had taught me presentiment of that fateful intertwining, warned me of that fatal snarly climax before I knew the name for murder—and I forgave it; there was a shape which rode away beneath a flag and (demon or no) courageously suffered—and I did more than just forgive: I slew it, because the body the blood, the memory which that ogre had dwelt in returned five years later and held out its hand and said 'Come' as you might say it to a dog, and I came.†   (source)
  • "I have a presentiment," he declared emphatically.†   (source)
  • I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me.†   (source)
  • She must have some presentiment of evil.†   (source)
  • She could not shake off the gloomy presentiment.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether I passed in it or not and I have a creepy, crawly presentiment that I didn't.†   (source)
  • Oh, how mean and hideous of him to feel this conviction, this presentiment†   (source)
  • I had a presentiment of what you would do, that day, ever since I saw you first in the morning.†   (source)
  • I believe in every foolish presentiment that comes into my head.†   (source)
  • I went below—not without a full presentiment of evil.†   (source)
  • I have a presentiment that it must be a girl.†   (source)
  • Her presentiment that all would again go on in the old way had not deceived her.†   (source)
  • I was possessed with a presentiment of coming evil.†   (source)
  • A presentiment quickened the beating of her heart; the fan became motionless again.†   (source)
  • The young man often recalled this impression afterwards, and even ascribed it to presentiment.†   (source)
  • I had a presentiment that you would end in something like this.†   (source)
  • The fact is, I felt irresistibly impressed with a presentiment of some vast good fortune impending.†   (source)
  • She had felt an early presentiment that she should like the eldest best.†   (source)
  • I mused: I had a presentiment in the bottom of my heart that he had better have remained away.†   (source)
  • Hepzibah's presentiment had not deceived her.†   (source)
  • His legs were weary, but his mind was at ease, free from the presentiment of change.†   (source)
  • She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell.†   (source)
  • Even Caesar's fortune at one time was, but a grand presentiment.†   (source)
  • The presentiment made his voice colder and harder as he said, "What is it?"†   (source)
  • 'I have neither a fear, nor a presentiment, nor a hope of death.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be working in obedience to some particular presentiment.†   (source)
  • Anna Pavlovna's presentiment was in fact fulfilled.†   (source)
  • 'I tell you I have a presentiment that it must be a girl,' returned Miss Betsey.†   (source)
  • Without knowing why it was a presentiment, perhaps Passepartout became vaguely uneasy.†   (source)
  • 'I had a presentiment, last time, that we should be better and more intimately acquainted.†   (source)
  • Oh, it was a true presentiment brought me to you....So now to this priest!†   (source)
  • I had a presentiment of it; but Pyotr Ilyitch came in.†   (source)
  • He had a sort of presentiment that for to-day, at least, he might consider himself out of danger.†   (source)
  • Without understanding what she wanted, he had the presentiment of something terrible.†   (source)
  • 'I have a strong presentiment that we shall become intimately acquainted.†   (source)
  • She had a presentiment of the reason why Alyosha had come to her.†   (source)
  • 'Now I,' said Blandois, 'I, my son, have a presentiment to-night that we shall be well acquainted.†   (source)
  • This dark presentiment also haunted Lord Steyne.†   (source)
  • I've had a presentiment all these days that you would come with that message.†   (source)
  • Dmitri interrupted with an uneasy presentiment.†   (source)
  • It was protective, on her side; sprang from a sense of being in league together, a presentiment of something that was bound to part them (they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe), which led to this chivalry, this protective feeling which was much more on her side than Sally's.†   (source)
  • Duane knew this, for he had shot these men; he had seen the quick, dark shadow in eyes, the presentiment that the will could not control, and then the horrible certainty.†   (source)
  • If under the presentiment of the most magnificent of all victories to be crowned by his own glorious death, a sort of priestly motive led him to dress his person in the jewelled vouchers of his own shining deeds; if thus to have adorned himself for the altar and the sacrifice were indeed vainglory, then affectation and fustian is each more heroic line in the great epics and dramas, since in such lines the poet but embodies in verse those exaltations of sentiment that a nature like Nelson, the opportunity being given, vitalizes into acts.†   (source)
  • Was there any justification of her haunting fear of Gulden—of her suspicion that she alone was the cause of his attitude toward Kells—of her horror at the unshakable presentiment and fancy that he was a gorilla and meant to make off with her?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Hearing these terrible remarks, I received an awful presentiment ...I too had once rung at the monster's door ...and, without knowing it, must have set some warning current in motion.†   (source)
  • "Speak if you dare, and tell me, what is the presentiment?" he repeated to himself, over and over again.†   (source)
  • During the evening other impressions began to awaken in his mind, as we have seen, and he forgot his presentiment.†   (source)
  • All these days since his arrival from Petersburg he had intended to pay her a visit, but some mysterious presentiment had restrained him.†   (source)
  • While there he heard excited whispers of someone just found at the bottom of the stairs in a fit; upon which he had hurried to the spot, with a presentiment of evil, and at once recognized the prince.†   (source)
  • He felt a presentiment that if he remained but a few days more in this place, and among these people, he would be fixed there irrevocably and permanently.†   (source)
  • Of course I refuse to believe that Evgenie Pavlovitch could have known beforehand of the catastrophe; that is, that at such and such a day at seven o'clock, and all that; but he might well have had a presentiment of the truth.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • That's a bad presentiment, mother.†   (source)
  • She went to the galleries and palaces; she looked at the pictures and statues that had hitherto been great names to her, and exchanged for a knowledge which was sometimes a limitation a presentiment which proved usually to have been a blank.†   (source)
  • The fever of his body aided the impatience and agony of his mind, and his death-bed exhibited a mixture of the newly awakened feelings of horror, combating with the fixed and inveterate obstinacy of his disposition;—a fearful state of mind, only to be equalled in those tremendous regions, where there are complaints without hope, remorse without repentance, a dreadful sense of present agony, and a presentiment that it cannot cease or be diminished!†   (source)
  • He noticed that she was tremulous, and he had a presentiment of the subject she was going to speak about.†   (source)
  • I have a presentiment that if no other innocent atonement is made for this, it will one day be required of him.†   (source)
  • People were fond of saying that he had some dark presentiment upon him then, but his emotion might, perhaps, with greater show of reason, be referred to what he had undergone that day.†   (source)
  • Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of an ambush, had arrived whole.†   (source)
  • In very terror I at morn awake,
    Upon the verge of bitter weeping,
    To see the day of disappointment break,
    To no one hope of mine—not one—its promise keeping:—
    That even each joy's presentiment
    With wilful cavil would diminish,
    With grinning masks of life prevent
    My mind its fairest work to finish!†   (source)
  • But he put the question without acrimony, for he felt that Madame de Cintre's brother was a good fellow, and he had a presentiment that on this basis of good fellowship they were destined to understand each other.†   (source)
  • However, my tenderest feelings are about to receive a shock: such is my presentiment; stay now, to see whether it will be realised.†   (source)
  • I felt a strange presentiment from the very first, that that audacious young savage would come to be hung!'†   (source)
  • How was it that a presentiment did not warn Mercedes that her lover was within three hundred yards of her?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, "Why is it that the young are never grateful?"†   (source)
  • Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all I can do.†   (source)
  • Fix, left alone, was more impatient than ever, having a presentiment that the robber was on board the Mongolia.†   (source)
  • Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?†   (source)
  • Was it a vague presentiment of the three hundred and seventy livres, sixteen sous, eight farthings, which the future King Charles VII.†   (source)
  • For if it be true that Nature at certain moments seems charged with a presentiment of one individual lot must it not also be true that she seems unmindful unconscious of another?†   (source)
  • 'Ah, well, you see,' returned Jack, 'Ernest and I had a sort of a kind of presentiment that this was going to be the old sow.†   (source)
  • For I had a presentiment that I should never be there again, and I felt that the dying light was suited to my last view of it.†   (source)
  • Her countenance, her words, her whole manner, betrayed her condition; and with swift presentiment he connected it with the women he had just passed: he felt her presence there at that time was in some way associated with them, and turned hastily as they arose to their feet.†   (source)
  • It was a presentiment that human thought, in changing its form, was about to change its mode of expression; that the dominant idea of each generation would no longer be written with the same matter, and in the same manner; that the book of stone, so solid and so durable, was about to make way for the book of paper, more solid and still more durable.†   (source)
  • I was led by a presentiment, soon to be realised; for shortly I espied my little Grauben bravely returning with her light step to Hamburg.†   (source)
  • Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.†   (source)
  • As the other two were impressed with a similar presentiment; and as their blood, like his, had all gone down again; some speculation ensued upon the cause of this sudden change in their temperament.†   (source)
  • One almost had a presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it was ugly; in the evening melancholy; by night it was sinister.†   (source)
  • Newman, of course, was perforce tongue-tied about Valentin's projected duel, and his dramatic talent was not equal to satirizing Madame de Cintre's presentiment as pointedly as perfect security demanded.†   (source)
  • The thoughts were strange to him now, like old friendships impossible to revive; and yet he had a dreamy feeling that this child was somehow a message come to him from that far-off life: it stirred fibres that had never been moved in Raveloe—old quiverings of tenderness—old impressions of awe at the presentiment of some Power presiding over his life; for his imagination had not yet extricated itself from the sense of mystery in the child's sudden presence, and had formed no conjectures of ordinary natural means by which the event could have been brought about.†   (source)
  • On hearing this alarming presentiment of their being doomed to an early death in the flower of their infancy, all four little girls raised a hideous cry, and burying their heads in their mother's lap simultaneously, screamed until the eight flaxen tails vibrated again; Mrs Kenwigs meanwhile clasping them alternately to her bosom, with attitudes expressive of distraction, which Miss Petowker herself might have copied.†   (source)
  • I have a presentiment that he WILL mention it the first thing this morning" She stopped to tell us in a whisper as we were going down that the whole house was filled with strange lumber which her landlord had bought piecemeal and had no wish to sell, in consequence of being a little M. This was on the first floor.†   (source)
  • I have a presentiment that, hereafter, it will be my lot to set out trees, to make fences,—perhaps, even, in due time, to build a house for another generation,—in a word, to conform myself to laws and the peaceful practice of society.†   (source)
  • I trembled from head to foot; I felt a presentiment of who it was and wished to rouse one of the peasants who dwelt in a cottage not far from mine; but I was overcome by the sensation of helplessness, so often felt in frightful dreams, when you in vain endeavour to fly from an impending danger, and was rooted to the spot.†   (source)
  • 'Well, Nelly,' said he, riding into the yard one morning, too early not to alarm me with an instant presentiment of bad news, 'it's yours and my turn to go into mourning at present.†   (source)
  • 'I have a presentiment,' said Mrs. Micawber, setting down her tin pot, 'that it is a member of my family!'†   (source)
  • He said to himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it was because it was intelligent and because it had foreseen the future; that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la Chanvrerie; it was because, after what it had done with the father, it did not wish to do this for the son!†   (source)
  • She had no presentiment that the power which her husband wished to establish over her future action had relation to anything else than his work.†   (source)
  • Miss La Creevy, who was a member of the little council, ventured to insinuate some doubts relative to the probability of Miss Nickleby's arriving at this happy consummation in the compass of an ordinary lifetime; but the good lady set that question entirely at rest, by informing them that she had a presentiment on the subject—a species of second-sight with which she had been in the habit of clenching every argument with the deceased Mr Nickleby, and, in nine cases and three-quarters out of every ten, determining it the wrong way.†   (source)
  • I persuaded myself that I knew he was taken; that there was something more upon my mind than a fear or a presentiment; that the fact had occurred, and I had a mysterious knowledge of it.†   (source)
  • The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that he is the complement[65] of his hearers;—that they drink his words because he fulfills for them their own nature; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable, most public and universally true.†   (source)
  • Her presentiment at the time had not deceived her—that that state of freedom and readiness for any enjoyment would not return again.†   (source)
  • Where, then, would be all the memories of early striving; all the deep pity for another's pain, which had been nurtured in her through years of affection and hardship; all the divine presentiment of something higher than mere personal enjoyment, which had made the sacredness of life?†   (source)
  • Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship's water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels' wards.†   (source)
  • Chance, or perhaps a kind of presentiment, at last led him into the Honourable Mr. Batulcar's theatre.†   (source)
  • In fact, poor Maggie, with all her inward consciousness of a painful past and her presentiment of a troublous future, was on the way to become an object of some envy,—a topic of discussion in the newly established billiard-room, and between fair friends who had no secrets from each other on the subject of trimmings.†   (source)
  • He had no doubt that the affection was there, and had no presentiment that he had done anything to repel it.†   (source)
  • He remembered that it was the detective who procured the sledge, the only means of reaching Omaha in time; but, checked by some presentiment, he kept his usual reserve.†   (source)
  • I have a presentiment, Dounia.†   (source)
  • Away with evil presentiment!†   (source)
  • Mr. Micawber evidently had his presentiment on the subject too, but he put it in his tin pot and swallowed it.†   (source)
  • Anna Pavlovna's presentiment was justified, and all that morning a joyously festive mood reigned in the city.†   (source)
  • I am his friend, and therefore I am your friend, too, I want to be...I had a presentiment...Last year there was a moment...though it wasn't a presentiment really, for you seem to have fallen from heaven.†   (source)
  • A presentiment instantly told d'Artagnan that this carriage contained the person who had appointed the rendezvous; the young man was himself astonished to find his heart beat so violently.†   (source)
  • I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life — my genius for good or evil — waited there in humble guise.†   (source)
  • Such, my dear Miss Brooke, is the accurate statement of my feelings; and I rely on your kind indulgence in venturing now to ask you how far your own are of a nature to confirm my happy presentiment.†   (source)
  • 'I have still a presentiment,' said Mrs. Micawber, pensively shaking her head, 'that my family will appear on board, before we finally depart.'†   (source)
  • Yes, it was the same flesh, the same chair a canon, the sight of which had even then filled him with horror, as by a presentiment.†   (source)
  • But, as I knew I could not come next day, when I should have a good deal to prepare in the evening, Mr. Micawber arranged that he would call at Doctor Strong's in the course of the morning (having a presentiment that the remittance would arrive by that post), and propose the day after, if it would suit me better.†   (source)
  • Neither red-skin nor pale-face can deny natur'; but Chingachgook is not a man to feel a presentiment against.†   (source)
  • Bulstrode was only the more conscious that there was a deposit of uneasy presentiment in his wife's mind, because she carefully avoided any allusion to it.†   (source)
  • Amelia shrank and started; the timid soul felt a presentiment of terror when she heard that the relations of the child's father had seen him.†   (source)
  • Formerly I very much wanted Nicholas to marry her, but I always had a sort of presentiment that it would not come off.†   (source)
  • You have told me yourself, madame, that I have been drawn into a snare; I, perhaps, may leave my life in it—for, although it may be strange, I have for some time had a presentiment that I should shortly die.†   (source)
  • But there is no use in holding out against a presentiment, I find; and I fear there is something in the suspicion after all.†   (source)
  • That's just what made him so ecstatic, that he had that presentiment.... And though it's so dreadful, it's all for the best.†   (source)
  • I have a favorable presentiment!†   (source)
  • At the time when Mr. Vincy uttered that presentiment about Rosamond, she herself had never had the idea that she should be driven to make the sort of appeal which he foresaw.†   (source)
  • It seems to me, Pathfinder, since I've taken up this presentiment, that the lad does not bustle about his deck naturally, as he used to do; but that he is silent and moody and thoughtful, like a man who has a load on his conscience.†   (source)
  • "I was never pleased at Bolkonski's engagement to Natasha," said the countess, "but I always wanted Nicholas to marry the princess, and had a presentiment that it would happen.†   (source)
  • But the moment of vocation had come, and before he got down from his chair, the world was made new to him by a presentiment of endless processes filling the vast spaces planked out of his sight by that wordy ignorance which he had supposed to be knowledge.†   (source)
  • He had, besides, a strong presentiment that something terrible would be the outcome of the situation that was developing before his eyes.†   (source)
  • Alyosha decided to go to him in any case before going to the captain, though he had a presentiment that he would not find his brother.†   (source)
  • Ay Pathfinder; but Jasper did not get his French as a prisoner: he took it in his boyhood, when the mind is easily impressed, and gets its permanent notions; when nature has a presentiment, as it were, which way the character is likely to incline.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Farebrother, whose hopes entered strongly into the same current with Lydgate's, and who knew nothing about him that could now raise a melancholy presentiment, left him with affectionate congratulation.†   (source)
  • It's quite true you can't tell the day and hour of a fit beforehand, but you can always have a presentiment of it.†   (source)
  • Today she had begun to see that she had been under a wild illusion in expecting a response to her feeling from Mr. Casaubon, and she had felt the waking of a presentiment that there might be a sad consciousness in his life which made as great a need on his side as on her own.†   (source)
  • I know you've come on most important business, Dmitri Fyodorovitch; it's not a case of presentiment, no reactionary harking back to the miraculous (have you heard about Father Zossima?)†   (source)
  • The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment.†   (source)
  • She had felt upset ever since Mitya's visit, and had a presentiment that she would not get through the night without the sick headache which always, with her, followed such excitement.†   (source)
  • And the worst of it was that though he did not know, up to the very last minute, that he would trample on the notes, he had a kind of presentiment of it, I am sure of that.†   (source)
  • I have a presentiment.†   (source)
  • Impelled by an irresistible presentiment, you will eagerly advance to it, unlock its folding doors, and search into every drawer—but for some time without discovering anything of importance—perhaps nothing but a considerable hoard of diamonds.†   (source)
  • OEDIPUS 'Tis a dread presentiment That in the end the seer will prove not blind.†   (source)
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