misgive
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"Lady Maude advised me in it, and I cannot say I repent it now, though my heart does misgive ever and again," he replied.
From Heiress of Haddon by Doubleday, William E.
The look on Bimal's face made my mind misgive me.
From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath
It was probably an unspoken sense of this fact which caused the early Tuscan poets to misgive their own powers and to turn wistfully and shyly towards the poets of Provence and of Sicily.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon
Why misgive, And force on ills you fear!
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
"Only by sight, but she's a sweet appearin' woman, and I wouldn't ask nothin' better 'n to see more of her," said Mrs. Wilkins, warmly, fearing Christie's heart might misgive her.
From Work: a Story of Experience by Alcott, Louisa May
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