misgive

Dreadfully did my heart then misgive me: I was ready to faint.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

If, in that moment, your heart should misgive you, if one faultering accent belie the sentiments you have so generously avowed for me, what, ah, what! may be the consequence?

From Damon and Delia A Tale by William Godwin

I am but a blind thing, Dame Maude; yet this match of the Lady Custance doth sorely misgive me.”

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

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 Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough

Did you mean to put me to a last test?—or did your hard little heart misgive you at the last moment?

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward

My heart misgave; a sudden fear struck me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

He said he'd come again—he went—and my heart misgave me.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

But later in the day, as he glanced at his partner's drawn, sallow-white face, Brannigan's heart misgave him.

From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Margaret's heart misgave her, but somehow she had not nerve to evade the interview, or rather, she had felt that it was coming and wished it over.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Her heart misgave her; he was her foster-child—dear to her as her own.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan

His heart had often misgiven him when he had thought of Caroline.

From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Had the heart of the great theorist, sailing obstinately straight west in obedience to the call of the land whose presence there he had reasoned out, misgiven him at last?

From The Ifs of History by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin

And yet it would have misgiven him more had he allowed himself to be entrapped by Miss Dawkins.

From An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids by Anthony Trollope

Laura dear, my heart has misgiven me from the first.

From Blind Policy by George Manville Fenn

Perhaps, for all he knew, it had misgiven her often, but she did not say so now.

From What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall

Despite their misgiving, both Lancaster and Wilson publicly urged their colleagues to ratify the tentative agreement, saying that rejecting it wouldn’t lead to better outcomes.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

And it was my primary misgiving about the entire project, right?

From Salon ● May 29, 2022

“This is exactly what they wanted, which is my biggest misgiving about leaving,” Ms. Levin said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2017

Not long after, Bollard wrote a follow-up report on that funding, and he expressed one misgiving.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2016

It looked like a children’s book, and he had his first pang of misgiving.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor