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

Rouse you, dear child of my love,—rouse you from your ill-boding security.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

M. E. biseninge, ill-boding, monstrous, from O. N. býsna, to portend, Norse bisna, to marvel over.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

So they saw the kidnapping from Medinet-el-Fayûm and the awful journey on camel-back across the desert—and Khartûm and Omdurmân, resembling hell on earth, and the ill-boding Mahdi.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk