To perceive these things is not always easy, nor is it easy to interpret them, while the great changes in nature which, perhaps, they forebode may indeed be watched but cannot be met intelligently, much less prevented.
I forebode A sudden danger from the craven king Of Israel, or else a secret ambush From those who hate us in Damascus.
I visited her, stayed 3 days and 2 nights with her; and I almost forgot to forebode about the lower part of his face, I found 'em so happy and prosperous and likely.
He passed the forenoon of the ensuing day in expectation of his son's coming, but he came not; whereat his heart forebode separation and he was distraught with fears for Kemerezzeman.
Fortune hath mauled me sore and patience fails me now; But long have I forebode misfortune drawing nigh.
In this also we can forebodelittle of the full-grown Dryden but his defects.
There are, however, several that by their cry, forebode evil.
A dog, however, that howls in its sleep, is thought to forebode the death of its master or of some inmate of the house.
Should its cry forebode ill, the undertaking is discontinued no matter how urgent it may be.
The ben-shie or banshee was a tutelar spirit, supposed to forebode by midnight howlings the death of a member of a family to which it was attached.
These words of the all-powerful Prince, who by some secret messenger unavailable to other mortals had already been apprised of his crime, seemed to him to forebode not only his doom, but also the refusal of his last request.
They were mostly youths, from sixteen to twenty years of age, and seemed little to forebode their probable fate.
Years before, the signs in the heavens and on the earth, for instance the flood promised for 1524, had seemed to him to forebode the “world upheaval” which his Evangel would bring.
It is thought to be the apparition of a sow formerly buried alive, and to forebode death and calamity.
Reference is made elsewhere to the apparition of the Black Friar, the evil genius of the Byrons, supposed to forebode misfortune to the member of the family to whom it appeared, and Mr. Hunt has described the death-token of the Vingoes.
And in my apprehension, you forebode your own doom.
It is attracted, for a moment, by the superior powers of another; but all his passions and propensities forebode that he is not to be held, even by that link of adamant.
Do you now foresee, do you forebode what happened?
He paused for a few moments, and seemed to ponder, and then added with a confident and proud expression, "But I see not why one shouldforebode aught but success and happiness to this noble boy of mine.
Yet, though it was so thoughtful, there was nothing in the aspect whence to forebode a want of the more masculine qualifications.
I might be able to forebode for France, and for its ruler.
The boughs were tossing heavily above their heads; while one solemn old tree groaned dolefully to another, as if telling the sad story of the pair that sat beneath, or constrained to forebode evil to come.
Not once, not even in nay dreams did I forebode this, that the flight of Phrixus would bring me woe.
A hazy or pale colour of the moon, revealing the state of our atmosphere, is supposed to forebode rain, and a red or copper colour to forebode wind.
Therefore I did not forebode well for Jonathan: howbeit, I accompanied him into the presence of Jesus.
From what I witnessed of Cabinet-making in Europe, above all in France under Louis Philippe, I do not forebode anything good in the coming-on shocks and eruptions, and I am sure these must come.
One of McClellan's aids suggested to the general that the comparative silence of the rebel artillery might forebode evacuation.
