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

Its supposed ill-boding nature is alluded to in Shakespeare’s Henry VI., where Suffolk desires for his enemies “their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

"Carnaby," she exclaimed, as an ill-boding light flashed from her eyes, "do you hear that?"

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

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

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary