What is "forebode"

Usage examples of "forebode".

But in spite of the foreboding and the grave warnings of friends, at the Amritsar Congress in 1919 I fought for co-operation and working the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms, hoping that the Prime Minister would redeem his promise to the Indian Mussalmans, that the Punjab wound would be healed and that the reforms inadequate and unsatisfactory though they were, marked a new era of hope in the life of India.

And now, waiting beneath the grey, gravid sky, there was a foreboding that recalled his deepest memories, distant childhood images of chilled teeth, bewilderment, and dread.

The stillness grated on his ears as he looked around for Hala, as he scrambled to the entrance and the long foreboding halls that he never wanted to be alone within, listening for movement, for footsteps in the rubble.

The other two Iliadic armings are those of Patroclus, full of pathos, and of Achilles, full of wrath, but also of foreboding, for it is on this occasion that the horse Xanthos prophesies his coming death.

Underlying the autumn chill was the bite of something ominous, a feeling of foreboding that hung in the air as if the universe were waiting for something to happen.

To laypeople, menopause is an inevitable fact of life, albeit often a painful one anticipated with foreboding.

To them belonged the mild mannered Lenni Lenape, who little foreboded the hand of iron that grasped their own so softly under the elm tree of Shackamaxon, to them the restless Shawnee, the gypsy of the wilderness, the Chipeways of Lake Superior, and also to them the Indian girl Pocahontas, who in the legend averted from the head of the white man the blow which, rebounding, swept away her father and all his tribe.

Even now as he walked back to Porterhouse through the snow-covered streets he was filled with foreboding and a tendency to waddle.

With her lovely body, with those breasts and those white, strong, healthy arms and legs, she would still tempt him often and embrace him and derive pleasure from him and then rest and sleep deeply, satiated, without pain, without dread, without foreboding, beautiful and torpid and stupid as a healthy, sleeping animal.

While the upper levels felt spookily abandoned, the depths beneath the tower had a palpable aura of immediate menace and foreboding.

He struggled to keep his invention aloft, at the same time fighting the inner squall that had been whipped up by the foreboding discussion he had overheard in the Strychnos tower ducts.

But this morning had found him uprooted from the security of his home, the long-ingrained routines, the surety of his woodshop job and the status accrued in the course of living twenty years within those foreboding walls.

Taking a little more claret and dipping one of the cakes in it, he shook his head and smiled at Ada and me with an ingenuous foreboding that he never could be made to understand.

But all the time my sense of foreboding increased, and on the tenth day I made my way almost with dread to the police kennels.

I could not guess what had caused it, but the tone of the letter did not forebode anything unpleasant.