misgive
Example Sentences
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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.