forbode
Example Sentences
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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
His mother forbode to lecture, but judiciously turned the conversation.
From Big Game A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
And the emptied city cries aloud, while its booty is wasted amid confused clamors; verily I fearfully forbode heavy calamities.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois
As night-time approaches, it is supposed that this invisible personage rides through the air with his yelping hounds; their weird sound being thought to forbode misfortune of some kind.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
