misgive
Example Sentences
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"We may both have need for the exercise ere we depart hence, or my thoughts misgive me," replied Mortimer.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John
“Let us find Fleming and the baskets first,” I answered; for my mind began to misgive me about finding him as easily as we had expected.
From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles
But nevertheless his heart did not misgive him.
From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony
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
Love is a matter of give and take—marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.
From A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Rowland, Helen
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