presentiment

• This could not be called a presentiment, but the result of a clear expectation, that some important consequence would ensue. —  The Life, Studies, And Works Of Benjamin West, Esq.
• I have without ceasing that horrible sensation of some danger threatening me, that apprehension of some coming misfortune or of approaching death, that presentiment which is, no doubt, an attack of some illness which is still unknown, which germinates in the flesh and in the blood May 18. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
• I don't know how it is, I was engaged in an affair of this nature once before, and never cared a pin about the matter; but somehow I have got what they call a presentiment that harm will come of to-morrow's business. —  Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
• It was a fear which may be described as a presentiment of jealousy. —  The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
• The sight sent a chill through the mercer's commercial heart, and a presentiment--one of those presentiments that seldom deceive--told him it was too late. —  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850

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