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
However, when once the dream has been interpreted to the satisfaction of the dream experts as ill-boding, means must be taken immediately to avert the impending evil.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.
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
With supple hams and an ill-boding look, I vowed to do it.
From The Noble Spanish Soldier by Dekker, Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
