ill-boding
Example Sentences
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They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards.
From Time Magazine Archive
With those ill-boding words the third day closed since Pippin came to Minas Tirith.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
How must ill-boding horrors fill her breast, When she beholds men mark'd above the rest For qualities most dear, plung'd from that height, And sunk, deep sunk, in second childhood's night!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
It was as if something had come between them, something restless and ill-boding that broke the soft swell of the waves on which they drifted happily—something, he knew not what, that made its presence felt.
From The Song of the Blood-Red Flower by Linnankoski, Johannes
Methinks I see but sullen airs and ill-boding glances.
From Tales from Two Hemispheres by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
