ill-boding

Example Sentences

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They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards.

From Time Magazine Archive

With those ill-boding words the third day closed since Pippin came to Minas Tirith.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

So they saw the kidnapping from Medinet-el-Fayûm and the awful journey on camel-back across the desert—and Khartûm and Omdurmân, resembling hell on earth, and the ill-boding Mahdi.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

The solitude of the night was interrupted only by the howl of the wolf, the melancholy moan of the ill-boding owl or the shriek of the frightful panther.

From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Pale Studént:   The wooden-chuck is next of kin       Unto the wood-peckére:   I fear not thine ill-boding din,       And why should I fear her?

From A Nonsense Anthology by Wells, Carolyn