All 4 Uses of
foreboding
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- He, some eight years her senior, had watched over her until her marriage; had chaperoned her during those brilliant years spent in the flat of the Rue de Richelieu, and had seen her enter upon this new life of hers, here in England, with much sorrow and some foreboding.†
Chpt 7 *foreboding = a feeling that something bad is going to happen
- Not a word of this conversation between him and Chauvelin had escaped Marguerite, and every word they had spoken seemed to strike at her heart, with terrible hopelessness and dark foreboding.†
Chpt 26
- the calm and stillness of this lonely spot, a calm, broken only at intervals by the strident and mournful cry of some distant gull, and by the creaking of the wheels, some way down the road: she would have loved the cool atmosphere, the peaceful immensity of Nature, in this lonely part of the coast: but her heart was too full of cruel foreboding, of a great ache and longing for a being who had become infinitely dear to her.†
Chpt 27
- Filled with strange, anxious foreboding, he, too, went to the door of the hut, and peering into the gloom, he asked quickly,— "What is the meaning of this?"†
Chpt 30