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- noun Plural form of
forboding .
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Examples
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And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
Think Progress » Cheney: Bush Has ‘Shored Up His [Political] Position…Specifically On Iraq’ 2007
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Its choppy sounds and video interrupted by my desire to witness possible forbodings by the local weather men.
Archive 2003-03-01 Ed 2003
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With heavy hearts and dread forbodings when light again dawned, they once more resumed their journey, the desert retaining the same appearance it had the day before, until towards night, when, to their joy!
The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
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Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Calvin Elliott
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Even Old Mammy forgot for a time her gloomy forbodings, and was quite cheerful as she helped Jean to unpack some of their household belongings.
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"You have filled my mind with forbodings," he said dejectedly, "I fear it is too late."
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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He had grown intensely proud of his countrymen, and when he heard the startled Persian lords muttering dark forbodings of the morrow, he all but laughed his gladness in their faces.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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But, as I was not in love, no one shook my hand, so, leaving the other two to discuss the virtues and graces of the Child of Kings, I went off to bed filled with the gloomiest forbodings.
Queen Sheba's Ring Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Full of forbodings, again I sought Rea: who, casting down her eyes, beheld her feet stained green.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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As she beheld him running so fast towards her, she felt alarmed, and trembled with fear; but he soon dispelled her gloomy forbodings; and in a little time she found herself in a situation surpassing her anxious expectations.
Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829
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