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
Even though what they had seen might forbode evil to some one, what power had they to avert it?
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
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
Hast thou not seyd, in blaspheme of this goddes, Through pryde, or through thy grete rakelnesse, Swich thing as in the lawe of love forbode is?
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
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