misgive

Example Sentences

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“Let us find Fleming and the baskets first,” I answered; for my mind began to misgive me about finding him as easily as we had expected.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by Kingston, William Henry Giles

So that when I heard his heavy footstep advancing along the passage my heart did misgive me, and I felt that I was trembling.

From Relics of General Chasse by Trollope, Anthony

Did you mean to put me to a last test?—or did your hard little heart misgive you at the last moment?

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"Lassie, lassie! it's no for me to condemn ye, nor maybe for the dead either, for he was whiles a hard father to you, but I wonder your own woman's heart didn't misgive ye."

From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily

At times, her heart would misgive her, lest Walpurga should not be able to hold out to the end.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold