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a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) — especially of something evil or bad
- I felt a strange presentiment from the very first, that that audacious young savage would come to be hung!'Chapter 7 — Oliver Continues Refactory (21% in)
- 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.Chapter 28 — Looks after Oliver, and Proceeds with His Adventures (25% in)
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