misgive
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The look on Bimal's face made my mind misgive me.
From The Home and the World by Tagore, Rabindranath
"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.
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.
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
There was something in this reply and the tone in which it was uttered that made the baron's heart misgive him; but he rallied his forces and repeated his hospitable entreaties.
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving, Washington
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