misgive
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Right early did my mind misgive me," said Brusi, "even so soon as I heard of thee, that I should have trouble from thee: and now has that come to pass.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
Why does my heart misgive? & scalding tears, That should but mourn, now prophecy her loss?
From Proserpine and Midas by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Upon this they all listened; and Gan felt his heart misgive him.
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
There was something in this reply and the tone in which it was uttered that made the baron's heart misgive him; but he rallied his forces and repeated his hospitable entreaties.
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving, Washington
It was probably an unspoken sense of this fact which caused the early Tuscan poets to misgive their own powers and to turn wistfully and shyly towards the poets of Provence and of Sicily.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon
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