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
"Thou cursed thing," he cried in scorn, "That ever such 'Luck' should be; From Muncaster's house, ill-boding fiend, Thou shalt vanish eternally."
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John
Nay, but the deed is well; link not thy lips To speech ill-starred, nor vent ill-boding words— Who hast to Argos her full freedom given, Lopping two serpents' heads with timely blow.
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
The solitude of the night was interrupted only by the howl of the wolf, the melancholy moan of the ill-boding owl or the shriek of the frightful panther.
From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
