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  • Presentiment that long shadow passes over, and we are the startled grass.†  (source)
  • Since the day he had first met Salander he had had a strong presentiment that her life was on a trajectory towards catastrophe.†  (source)
  • Finding my seat at last, I was overcome with a presentiment of worse things to come.†  (source)
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  • It was the most fearful kind of presentiment, because it was based on reality.†  (source)
  • My presentiments of my father's plan were surpassed by the actuality.†  (source)
    presentiments = premonitions (supernatural feelings about what is to come)
  • She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell.†  (source)
  • Lourdes arrives home with a presentiment of disaster.†  (source)
  • To presentiments?†  (source)
  • And when he turned again to face her she knew immediately that her presentiment was an accurate one, and that her cause was in its deepest peril yet.†  (source)
  • Her letters beat like great pulses; they were filled with the excitement of new cities, presentiments of abundant life.†  (source)
  • It did not matter to me what I looked at; from any observation I would conclude that a secret of life had been 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)
  • 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)
  • I was afraid again, but I had lived with fear a long time now and some vague presentiment that it would always be present.†  (source)
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