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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”

But one that was more bold than the rest took heart, and cried, "God send it does not forbode that the Papists will murder us all in our beds!"

Straight would to horse the margrave, and with his warriors ride I ween, their hearts that moment their coming doom forbode.

When it appears to a person in the churchyard, particularly to the grave-digger, it is said to forbode the death of a child that shall be next laid in the earth.”

Hast thou not seyd, in blaspheme of this goddes, Through pryde, or through thy grete rakelnesse, Swich thing as in the lawe of love forbode is?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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