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
Insane laughter of the Suitors, yet with eyes full of tears, and with hearts full of sorrow: what does it all forbode?
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
The old master of the castle noticed this change, and his father's heart forbode trouble.
From Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
I wish it so may prove; my mind is a bad prophet to me, and what it does forbode of ill, it seldom fails to pay me.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
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