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

I will no longer hear The ill-boding note which frantic hatred sounds To affright a fortune which the Gods secure.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Pale Studént:   The wooden-chuck is next of kin       Unto the wood-peckére:   I fear not thine ill-boding din,       And why should I fear her?

From A Nonsense Anthology by Wells, Carolyn

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

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary