forbode
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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2013
The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still there was a quietness and a charm about this connexion that made him never forbode danger in it.
From The Home by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
Taken in connection with the close watch kept upon him, he could forbode no good from it.
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
Long, long endear'd by fellowship in woe, O'er their cold dust we give the tears to flow; And, in their hapless lot forbode our own, A foreign burial, and a grave unknown!
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
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