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
How could she forbode hatred, she who only knew love?
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various
His mother forbode to lecture, but judiciously turned the conversation.
From Big Game A Story for Girls by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
I wish it so may prove; my mind is a bad prophet to me, and what it does forbode of ill, it seldom fails to pay me.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
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