misgive
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This, together with some words from Richmond and the cheerfulness of Holland, makes my mind misgive me that we shall still have them created for the Committee.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry
My mind now began to misgive me that the disappointed coach-maker had sent me on a wild-goose errand, and that there was no post-chaise in those parts.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
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
So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts, What may befall him to his harm and ours.--SHAKESPEARE.
From The Herd Boy and His Hermit by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
“Did not your mind misgive you yet?” asks Eubolus.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
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