forbode
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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2013
The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it appears to a person in the churchyard, particularly to the grave-digger, it is said to forbode the death of a child that shall be next laid in the earth.”
From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various
Straight would to horse the margrave, and with his warriors ride I ween, their hearts that moment their coming doom forbode.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Secondly, whether the movement that I now forbode is really more improbable than the evils once seemed, which are now a startling reality.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett
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