Thesaurus / forewarning
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It is a shock to a man to be wrenched, without forewarning, from the groove in which his life has been gliding for twenty years.
GRIFB. L. (BENJAMIN LEOPOLD) FARJEONFor in that day a sneeze was not merely 333 the little explosion of tickled surfaces or a forewarning of a slight cold.
THE CUP OF FURYRUPERT HUGHESHe had not the slightest forewarning of the great 10 jolt that was soon to come to himself and his comrades out of the atmosphere.
THE MOTOR BOAT CLUB AND THE WIRELESSH. IRVING HANCOCKI will not engage you without forewarning you of the terrible things you may have to encounter during the winter night.
A BOOK OF GHOSTSSABINE BARING-GOULDFather Underhill felt quite guilty in not forewarning his wife of the conspiracy, but one evening she mistrusted.
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW YORKAMANDA MILLIE DOUGLASWe had forewarning of this the day we arrived, when the field in front of us was full of smoking holes.
BATTERY E IN FRANCEFREDERIC R. KILNERIts discordant voice is, next to the cry of the owl, regarded as the most dismal forewarning.
THE DELIGHT MAKERSADOLF BANDELIERA superstitious forewarning of this sort was a weakness new to her in her experience of herself.
THE BLACK ROBEWILKIE COLLINSHe did not, however, glide out of the harbour without forewarning of the gale that was rising for his destruction.
THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. II (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESONHis companions kept remonstrating with and forewarning him of a catastrophe, which in his case never occurred.
THE LIFE OF ISAAC INGALLS STEVENS, VOLUME I (OF 2)HAZARD STEVENSWORDS RELATED TO FOREWARNING
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