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
The eyes of the brothers met in a long, ill-boding glance.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
And thus, croaking like the ravens when they anticipate pestilence, the ill-boding sibyls withdrew from the churchyard.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir
