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
Methinks I see but sullen airs and ill-boding glances.
From Tales from Two Hemispheres by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
As the engine cools through inaction, the ill-boding wisp of spray lessens and dies.
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Paul Bewsher
The high-born awoke, there the like befell: Glaumvor had perceived that her dreams were ill-boding, adverse to Gunnar's going to and fro.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
