forbode
Example Sentences
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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
He wouldn't lie down, and when he did, it was with a grump of protest that seemed to forbode failure.
From Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
But already I forbode the future, they will let us languish and perish, and then lament that they did not lend us assistance sooner.
From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. by Ludwig Tieck
And the emptied city cries aloud, while its booty is wasted amid confused clamors; verily I fearfully forbode heavy calamities.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Theodore Alois Buckley
