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
At the moment of our observing the ill-boding sign, a pig was in the act of entering the portals.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
To these ill-boding events, moreover, the loss of Minorca was now added, until England at last refused to endure longer the incapacity of Newcastle, and clamoured for the appointment of Pitt.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
