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misgive

[mis-giv] / mɪsˈgɪv /




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That would be briefer and better—and perhaps Leo's heart would misgive him—perhaps . . . but in any case, anything must be better than this suspense.

From A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

That seems hard; and your heart will misgive you.

From The Land of Footprints by White, Stewart Edward

Love is a matter of give and take—marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

From A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Rowland, Helen

Why does my heart misgive? & scalding tears, That should but mourn, now prophecy her loss?

From Proserpine and Midas by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Did you mean to put me to a last test?—or did your hard little heart misgive you at the last moment?

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.




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