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  • Tonight, however, this place held a strange aura of foreboding.†   (source)
  • Harry fought his way over to her with a feeling of foreboding: Professor McGonagall had a way of making him feel he must have done something wrong.†   (source)
  • Werner is seized with a sudden and foreboding dread, but then Hauptmann looks back at him, and the feeling subsides.†   (source)
  • Blanche Williams, too, has a sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • For a moment Eddard Stark was filled with a terrible sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • It was a try toward relieving the foreboding in his manner; it only worked to deepen it.†   (source)
  • Yet the not-arena fills me with a dreadful feeling of foreboding.†   (source)
  • Somehow the Wall is even more foreboding when it's empty like this.†   (source)
  • This foreboding, this muted dread, was what she had sensed around her.†   (source)
  • Then why did Judith's teasing always raise this cold little lump of foreboding?†   (source)
  • Here however it was peacetime and the family in the Plymouth traveled without fear or foreboding.†   (source)
  • In the foreboding silence, I followed my usual path to the river.†   (source)
  • I asked with anxious foreboding, and before they could reply, I assessed the damage from across the room.†   (source)
  • Enrique's foreboding eases.†   (source)
  • The anticipation builds, the foreboding fear of having to walk the distance we just drove.†   (source)
  • The houses were dark and foreboding, with shattered windows.†   (source)
  • The foreboding in Meggie's heart grew, spreading black wings.†   (source)
  • There was a feeling of foreboding in the air.†   (source)
  • An unhappy foreboding rose in her throat.†   (source)
  • Shaking off his sense of foreboding, Hodge reached for another piece of paper, not noticing the scarlet drops that smeared the paper as he wrote.†   (source)
  • I have a terrible foreboding, Timothy.†   (source)
  • He opened it, his temples pulsing with foreboding.†   (source)
  • I'll admit I did not understand Will's attraction to a child of Hades, but if the dark foreboding type was what made Will happy ... Oh.†   (source)
  • Filled with foreboding, he ran outside.†   (source)
  • "Hey," the photographer protested, with sudden foreboding, "you look like you're going to cry."†   (source)
  • When he received Fernanda's last letter, dictated by the foreboding of imminent death, he put the leftovers of his false splendor into a suitcase and crossed the ocean in the hold of a ship where immigrants were crammed together like cattle in a slaughterhouse, eating cold macaroni and wormy cheese.†   (source)
  • Yet there was a tempo of headlong rushing to this place that filled Jessica with foreboding.†   (source)
  • I asked, feeling the dark stirrings of foreboding in the pit of my stomach.†   (source)
  • He laughed, a dark sound that was more foreboding than friendly.†   (source)
  • There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding.†   (source)
  • My mouth tasted like dead speed, dying beer, and foreboding.†   (source)
  • Midnight is approaching, and while the peak of activity has passed, the basal metabolism that maintains life continues undiminished, producing the basso continuo of the city's moan, a monotonous sound that neither rises nor falls but is pregnant with foreboding.†   (source)
  • Too bad washing away the awful foreboding feeling the bizarre dream had given me wasn't as easy.†   (source)
  • When he said that, Sister Mary Joseph Praise began shivering again, and she felt a deep foreboding, as if she could hear death's footsteps rustling the leaves in that hothouse.†   (source)
  • I will admit to feeling a great sense of doubt and foreboding as I considered Jason's prospects of succeeding in the task Red Stevens had given him.†   (source)
  • Deets felt a foreboding, a sense that they were starting on a hard journey to a far place.†   (source)
  • He had a sudden feeling of foreboding.†   (source)
  • In that instant, no shivers pricked the hairs on the back of his neck, no premonitions burst forth like exploding fireworks; he felt no sense of foreboding at all, and looking back—considering all that was to come—he was always amazed by that.†   (source)
  • "Unless some speedy, and effectual measures are adopted by Congress, our cause will be lost," he told John Hancock in a long, foreboding letter dated September 25.†   (source)
  • The storm clouds were grouped high above us, black and foreboding with a blue sky peeking out behind.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart answered with wan foreboding, and General Dreedle then cupped his hand over his mouth and whispered something that made Colonel Cathcart's face glow with immense joy.†   (source)
  • Forebodingly I caught a smell-metallic, the iron smell of blood, as when a woman gives birth, as at the sacrifice of a large animal, as when I menstruated and dreamed red dreams.†   (source)
  • Max found the buildings foreboding as he approached; they loomed high above him, and their many windows were still and dark.†   (source)
  • Any sense of foreboding I feel will probably disappear the minute the door opens and some kindly housekeeper takes me in with a warm embrace and an open smile.†   (source)
  • It had grown larger, deeper, more tragic and foreboding.†   (source)
  • At the end of June I was in the Shire, but a cloud of anxiety was on my mind, and I rode to the southern borders of the little land; for I had a foreboding of some danger, still hidden from me but drawing near.†   (source)
  • It looked nothing like the foreboding, cliff-ringed fortress I had first laid eyes upon a few weeks ago; now it seemed fragile, a shard of rock in danger of being washed away by the waves.†   (source)
  • Something, a sense of foreboding, filled me, a quick sense of uncleanliness.†   (source)
  • Finally, someone said, "They're taller," and for a brief moment not a man among them did not feel seasick with foreboding.†   (source)
  • I had a terrible sense of foreboding and wanted to yell to the bearers to take me home so that I could ease my laotong's fears.†   (source)
  • Like the ground they roamed over, their oftenbearded faces were browned from the sun and cracked by the constant wind, giving them a leathery, toughened appearance, a foreboding, expressionless mask that did not welcome outsiders.†   (source)
  • She saw it from the road, the foreboding mass of it, its peaks and tower and rambling walls.†   (source)
  • The lawman listens to the president intently, with a veteran policeman's heightened sense of foreboding, sifting and sorting through each word.†   (source)
  • I could not tell which face or faces had given birth to my sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • Such a place the Fallen Angels might have built as a spite to Heaven, dry and sharp, desolate and dangerous, and for me filled with foreboding.†   (source)
  • I respect your forebodings too well.†   (source)
  • She appeared not to be listening any too closely, and I heard her continue in a voice that seemed to me both subdued and invaded by hints of foreboding.†   (source)
  • Dan was so absorbed in his deductions and forebodings that he failed to see the woman sitting on the edge of the road until he was almost abreast of her.†   (source)
  • (Her face is still full of foreboding; he sighs) Look; it was eight o'clock†   (source)
  • Yet he went out of the room depressed and with a feeling of foreboding.†   (source)
  • But Rufo is as full of dire forebodings as a cheap melodrama.†   (source)
  • "An old man," the boy said and had a sudden foreboding that he was not going to enjoy the day.†   (source)
  • Mr. Holifield must have come to the window, for they heard, "Did I hear my name called?" and they sighed with foreboding.†   (source)
  • "Madam," said King Edmund, "the like foreboding stirreth in my heart also."†   (source)
  • Dick saw all this with increasing foreboding.†   (source)
  • "You are always foreboding gloomy things!" said the others.   (source)
    foreboding = with a feeling that something bad is going to happen
  • And all the while they talked and the shadows lengthened Bilbo became more and more unhappy and his foreboding grew.   (source)
    foreboding = feeling that something bad will happen
  • Katherine knew of no famous knives, but it looked foreboding and ancient.†   (source)
  • They were so tall, so foreboding, Jalil's walls.†   (source)
  • As he made his way through the streets, his black eyes gleamed with foreboding.†   (source)
  • Nameless forebodings crept upon him as he sat there in the dark.†   (source)
  • Harry felt a slight sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • There is a gothic, foreboding feel to it.†   (source)
  • Cold, panicky amazement and foreboding among them.†   (source)
  • It only increased her foreboding of the meeting that lay ahead.†   (source)
  • Moody raised his wand, and Harry felt a sudden thrill of foreboding.†   (source)
  • She was thinking of Miguel, and a dark foreboding gripped her throat.†   (source)
  • Gurney turned away, feeling an oppressive sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • As Sister Sandrine fell, her last feeling was an overwhelming sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • A stark foreboding set in as he realized he was currently sitting at ground zero.†   (source)
  • Laila was aware of the face over her, all teeth and tobacco and foreboding eyes.†   (source)
  • Shivers Down The Spine And A Foreboding And that's when she put her book down.†   (source)
  • A moody silence settled over them like a foreboding thunderhead.†   (source)
  • I scanned the dark trees, tangled and foreboding.†   (source)
  • "No, Mishka," the Count admitted with some sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • Despite Max's optimism, the rain he saw outside mirrored his growing foreboding.†   (source)
  • At other times I would wake up sad and filled with foreboding.†   (source)
  • With irises as dark and foreboding as the deep, it was positively unnerving.†   (source)
  • The thought sent a pang of foreboding through him.†   (source)
  • Yueh had filled him with a sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • I take note: artist instead of painter, the foreboding still, sign-pointing the way to senility.†   (source)
  • In Ethan's arms, I knew no fear, in this ultimate act of giving, no foreboding.†   (source)
  • Each time she closed her eyes, her head filled with forebodings and fantasies of the morrow.†   (source)
  • Amanda heard something troubled in his voice, and she felt a flash of foreboding.†   (source)
  • Cold foreboding was dripping down his spine like ice.†   (source)
  • With a sudden sense of foreboding, Clary put her phone back down on the bed.†   (source)
  • Was what happened to-day at the grand house the sense of foreboding danger that I felt so strongly?†   (source)
  • But it is foreboded that that will only be when we have both lost all that we now have.†   (source)
  • Luke's expression, as Simon drew closer, only intensified Simon's foreboding.†   (source)
  • The narrow, gloomy streets looked ominous and foreboding to Roran.†   (source)
  • Mark peeked around the tree and examined the tall, foreboding walls.†   (source)
  • The three of them watched the sky together with foreboding.†   (source)
  • In response to Adams's impassioned letter of foreboding, Jefferson said nothing.†   (source)
  • In a few minutes the whole ground of his life had shifted, and he felt stricken with foreboding.†   (source)
  • I staggered a few steps away from the car and vomited foreboding.†   (source)
  • Though your tale fills me with foreboding.†   (source)
  • The sky was utterly dark, and the stillness of the heavy air foreboded storm.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he has some foreboding of bad news.†   (source)
  • His voice became tinged with foreboding.†   (source)
  • When his body was wheeled another turn, the foreboding like a spinning ball was caught again.†   (source)
  • Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs?†   (source)
  • A nagging foreboding
    Gnawed at his doughty heart.†   (source)
  • And my heart forebodes that soon it will past away for ever.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, I have a foreboding that we'll soon be swept away, somewhere even more distant.†   (source)
  • The others' hushed voices were giving Harry an odd feeling of foreboding; it was as though they had just entered the house of a dying person.†   (source)
  • There was no breeze moving anywhere, and the air was damp, and the sky had covered over with clouds of a sullen yellowish grey, but bright behind them, like heated metal; and it had a blank and foreboding look to it.†   (source)
  • The worst injury, though, was his sense of foreboding that this would not be the last time Durza's wound would trouble him.†   (source)
  • Me, some of the children, Nabi in the back, standing rigidly, hands behind his back, looking simultaneously foreboding, shy, and dignified, as Afghans often manage to in pictures.†   (source)
  • In a tall apartment just around the corner on Munich Street, an old lady with a foreboding voice deciphered for everyone the exact source of the commotion.†   (source)
  • Harry felt sure there ought to be a security person there, sure their absence was an ominous sign, and his feeling of foreboding increased as they passed through the golden gates to the lifts.†   (source)
  • After a week, visited by a terrible foreboding, I changed my hiding place again and moved up to the attic, or rather its bare boards, for the roof above them had fallen into the flames.†   (source)
  • I'd forgotten to bring it in; it was very unlike me to forget a thing like that, especially a white laundry, which I'd worked so hard at, getting out the spots; and this was another cause of foreboding to me.†   (source)
  • Now, suddenly, it was being unveiled, and he felt a cold sense of foreboding in the pit of his stomach.†   (source)
  • If she had told me the night before I would have lain awake all night, of course, full of dread and foreboding, but by morning I would have been composed and ready.†   (source)
  • Yet the foreboding would not leave him.†   (source)
  • Tonight, however, he sensed a foreboding solemnity in the Temple Room, and his mind began replaying all the dire warnings he had been given on his journey, threats of terrible consequences if he ever shared the ancient secrets he was about to learn: Throat cut from ear to ear ....tongue torn out by its roots ....bowels taken out and burned ....scattered to the four winds of heaven ....heart plucked out and given to the beasts of the field— "Brother," the gray-eyed master said, placing his left hand on the initiate's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Gray and foreboding.†   (source)
  • Vittoria's eyes filled with foreboding.†   (source)
  • Full of foreboding, or perhaps guided by an instinct for self-preservation that had been well honed over my years in hiding, I did not return to the attic of the building where I had decided to stay.†   (source)
  • They listened to the footsteps in the hallway above, one heavy and foreboding, the other the pattering of a skittish little animal.†   (source)
  • A foreboding, clammy and fearful, came into her heart as if, along with the visitor whose name was so strange yet somehow familiar, some menace had slipped into her life.†   (source)
  • The slam of rifle butts against the door shook the old man from his sleep with a clear foreboding of misfortune.†   (source)
  • The three of them were motionless a moment, as if all the tension between them had been erased and replaced by a single, unifying foreboding.†   (source)
  • The houses were grim and foreboding.†   (source)
  • And when Nina turned the key and slipped inside, the Count dutifully followed—but with a palpable sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • In particular, he was thinking—with a sense of foreboding—that in the course of twenty years this firefly, this pinwheel, this wonder of the world had become a woman who, when asked where she was going, could answer without the slightest hesitation: Does it matter?†   (source)
  • Some turned to watch her go, their blank expressions turning slowly to a foreboding cognition as she moved toward the door.†   (source)
  • They filled the Baron with an odd sense of foreboding, and he wondered what thoughts these talismans had inspired in the Duke Leto as they hung in the halls of Caladan and then on Arrakis—the bravura father and the head of the bull that had killed him.†   (source)
  • On the train he felt a terrible foreboding and an unspoken desire that something dramatic should take place, but he did not know that the drama had already begun when he desired it.†   (source)
  • Although the brands themselves were mesmerizing-artifacts few Illuminati scholars even believed existed-Langdon suddenly realized there had been something else about the box that had ignited a wave of foreboding within.†   (source)
  • Columns of smoke rose above the Kremlin walls from the bonfires of classified files, while in the streets municipal and factory workers, who had not been paid in months, watched with seasoned foreboding as the eternally lit windows of the old fortress began to go dark one by one.†   (source)
  • Although he had been genuinely relieved to discover that his friend's distress stemmed from the elision of four sentences on the three-hundredth page of the third volume, he couldn't help but feel with a certain sense of foreboding that the matter of the fifty words was not entirely behind them.... He was worried about Nina and her journey east.†   (source)
  • The boy of fifteen, riding away from home to be examined for admission to Harvard, suffered a foreboding as bleak as the rain clouds overhead.†   (source)
  • No sense of foreboding, I listen to Leigh and Heather giggling behind the too-thin walls, doing whatever girlfriends do.†   (source)
  • He felt the old foreboding.†   (source)
  • From this vantage, the distant castle on Aegon's High Hill was directly behind him, with the comet hanging forebodingly over its towers.†   (source)
  • As we trudged into the foreboding woods, the towering oaks and Carolina pines began to shut out all light.†   (source)
  • But something else bothered him—a cold sense of foreboding, as If he hadn't heard the worst news yet.†   (source)
  • The mask appeared almost Asian in origin, its painted features depicting some foreboding spirit—a tengu or oni.†   (source)
  • She too rejoiced at the victory, but then a sense of foreboding and disquiet tempered her celebratory mood as she pictured elves-especially ones as strong as Blodhgarm-invading human homes.†   (source)
  • With equal parts foreboding and the urge to finally know everything, she typed his name into the search engine.†   (source)
  • The trees of long ago appeared taller, straighter, and less foreboding, and throughout the valley, the Riders' buildings stood intact, glowing like pale beacons in the duskwith the soft light from the elves' flameless lanterns.†   (source)
  • Far below, down a deep gorge and moving northward, back toward the tundra and the trails that would take them around the foreboding range of impassable mountains, Kessell saw the black specks that marked the wizards' caravan beginning its long journey back to Luskan.†   (source)
  • "You feel a vague foreboding," I said.†   (source)
  • She welcomed every breath of knowledge that came her way, all the better for its element of disquiet, but this time the foreboding shook her strongly.†   (source)
  • Although he did not consider himself overly superstitious, the ghostly mist and the eerie half-light and the appearance of the trees themselves-grim and foreboding and mysterious-ignited a spark of fear inside of him.†   (source)
  • Raptor went third, Locomotive went seventh, and as the names continued, his sense of foreboding intensified.†   (source)
  • She sensed something wrong here-terribly wrong-and even I could feel this along with her: a dark, foreboding presence.†   (source)
  • 'It looks like a tomb,' muttered Frodo, and bent forwards with a curious sense of foreboding, to look more closely at it.†   (source)
  • 'The cards have a bad temper today,' she said with a little smile, but in truth she seemed taken by a sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • He spoke these words in a clipped and foreboding manner, syllable by syllable, as if he sensed the threat in state-created terminology.†   (source)
  • I wonder what that forebodes.†   (source)
  • A woman's voice, low and foreboding.†   (source)
  • Yet as the dusk deepened and darkness seeped into the hollows between the trees, Jon's sense of foreboding grew.†   (source)
  • The business of the country ....stands still ....all is absorbed by the debates...Many persons are very anxious and forebode a majority unfavorable, and the most pernicious and destructive results.†   (source)
  • A moment later we heard voices approaching, male voices, deep and foreboding, and I do believe that this was when I fainted, the rumbling of a motorcar also approaching from far off in the distance.†   (source)
  • Foreboding and gloom.†   (source)
  • The Shire, I forebode, is not free now from peril; and these two I had thought to send back there as messengers, to do what they could, according to the fashion of their country, to warn the people of their danger.†   (source)
  • It is as if she fears that the door at the very top of these stairs, a door that grows larger by the moment, will lead not to the panoramic view I anticipate but to some dark, foreboding place, where young April is kept hidden.†   (source)
  • It was already drizzling slightly, the sky was overcast and foreboding, and tiny whitecaps were forming on the river surface.†   (source)
  • She felt like dissolving in hopeless foreboding tears; but she said not a word, and helped Dick with the work till it was finished.†   (source)
  • And it seems to me we should be shamed if for any fearing or foreboding we turned back from following so noble a beast as now we have in chase.†   (source)
  • The sneering ghost he had seen in the train window and all the foreboding feelings he had on the way returned to him and he remembered that his ticket from the scale had said to beware of dark women and diat his grandfather's had said he was upright and brave.†   (source)
  • Dick was watching her face, she knew, for signs of disappointment, and she forced herself to smile, though she felt weak with foreboding: this tiny stuffy room, the bare brick floor, the greasy lamp, were not what she had imagined.†   (source)
  • It was too bad that circling in his mind the daylong foreboding had to return, that he had yet to open the door and climb the stairs to Emma.†   (source)
  • And such a fate swooped down on her with a black foreboding overwhelming enough to make stale the word "terror."†   (source)
  • The dogs were wavering, looking back in terror,
    And, in dire foreboding, cringed close to a young shepherd.†   (source)
  • and his care was lightened; and certain it was that, heavy as was the dread and foreboding of those days upon the hearts of men, still these two of his charges prospered and grew daily in strength.†   (source)
  • I knew on the way downstairs that the call could only come from the Pink Palace, where I had left Jack's number, and I had a sense of foreboding which was amplified enormously when I heard the familiar voice, dolorosa, of Morris Fink.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, though they marched in seeming peace, the hearts of all the army, from the highest to the lowest, were downcast, and with every mile that they went north foreboding of evil grew heavier on them.†   (source)
  • They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he did not know where to escape from his forebodings of disaster and bis feeling that despite his striving for the good and his capacity for happiness, he had no power over the future.†   (source)
  • With loneliness in abeyance and with my creative juices in full flow, I could not have been happier ... I could not have been happier, that is, until there came a bad sequence of events which intruded themselves on my well-being and made me realize how desperately at odds Sophie and Nathan had been (and still were) with each other, how unsimulated had been that quality in Sophie of foreboding and fright, together with the hints she had let fall of bitter discord.†   (source)
  • But though all the signs forebode that the doom of Gondor is drawing nigh, less now to me is that darkness than my own darkness.†   (source)
  • The leading company rode off as swiftly as they could, for it was still deep dark, whatever change Wadfara might forebode.†   (source)
  • Hester could not but ask herself whether there had not originally been a defect of truth, courage, and loyalty on her own part, in allowing the minister to be thrown into a position where so much evil was to be foreboded and nothing auspicious to be hoped.†   (source)
    foreboded = warned (before hand) that something bad would happen
  • It rose to the pitch of a bodily anguish, arousing within me a dread and suffocating foreboding.†   (source)
  • Our forebodings increase as rum is served out.†   (source)
  • There was foreboding in these strange brilliant days when the land was failing them.†   (source)
  • There was a foreboding about her as though she were carrying tragedy within herself.†   (source)
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