ill-boding
Example Sentences
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They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards.
From Time Magazine Archive
With those ill-boding words the third day closed since Pippin came to Minas Tirith.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
A lawyer’s hat!—alack! what teeming store-house oft Of mischiefs dire; ill-boding parchment; ‘writs,’ With hieroglyphics mystical inscribed; Invention curious of graceless men, And in sad mock’ry named ‘the grace of God!’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
How must ill-boding horrors fill her breast, When she beholds men mark'd above the rest For qualities most dear, plung'd from that height, And sunk, deep sunk, in second childhood's night!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
In the shadow of the house he began to show ill-boding symptoms.
From The Seventh Noon by Frederick, Edmund
