foreboding

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On this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Stefan, Josh, and Dan discuss the actually pretty good Washington Wizards and the forboding success of the Washington Capitals.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2017

But Jabbari’s mother had disclosed her forboding after her daughter was tranferred Friday evening from the prison where she had been held to another location.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2014

Among all the grim and forboding visages of A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

To their good lord Sir Dietrich the news was brought with speed With Gunther's knights forbade he his knights a lance to cross, Naught from such game forboding but grief and deadly loss.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Something so unnatural and so forboding dwelt on his kind, dear features, that a racking pain seized the girl's heart as she looked, her throat filled up, and hot, blinding tears welled into her eyes.

From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by Vera, [pseud.]