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Example sentences for "premonition"

Lexicographically close words:
premit; premium; premiums; premolar; premolars; premonitions; premonitory; premunire; prenant; prenatal
  1. It was perhaps as well to put on record that the German Admiral, when he took his fleet into Valparaiso, refused to drink the toast of 'Damnation to the British Navy,' and apparently had a premonition that his end was very near.

  2. He looked anxiously towards the open door, and Vanna felt convinced that he had noticed the absence of the couple the afternoon before, and had a premonition of the news which lay in store.

  3. She had had the strangest premonition when she stepped over the threshold.

  4. Even Thomas, though he felt sure his premonition would be fulfilled, was uncertain as to who the victim would be.

  5. Sitting thus, a premonition of danger oppressed him with such force and suddenness that it caused him to throw himself quickly backward.

  6. I concluded my business as soon as possible and hurried home, feeling an unpleasant premonition that everything was not all right with the mother and the child.

  7. I had a premonition that the sad event that later transpired in the fall was not far off.

  8. He fell lifeless to the ground; and thus his premonition was fulfilled, of which premonition I was not apprised until after the battle, or he would have been excused from the fight.

  9. But for all that he had a premonition that evil days were at hand; and, sceptic as he was, he could not shake off the uneasy feeling.

  10. Dr Graham's premonition was likely to prove true, for in the serene sky under which the bishop had moved for so long, a tempest was gathering fast.

  11. Guida's premonition had been right: It was Philip.

  12. But she lifted them to Philip's, and the fear and premonition passed.

  13. Self-confident as he was, glutted with success as he was, he had in his heart a premonition that some time he might want that money just where it was placed.

  14. He had a premonition that the man was destined to stand in his way, and that he was located just where he could overlook his operations and his life.

  15. It was sheer premonition that made him think the letter was for him.

  16. It was premonition again that told him the contents before he had read a line: DEAR MR.

  17. And yet into him who sits in the seat of power a premonition of something impending gradually creeps--a premonition which he will not acknowledge, will not define.

  18. What was there to hinder a pure soul from having an inner premonition of the fate that was in store for it?

  19. Seeing that he was relentless in this request, Frau von Erfft conceded it, though she had a reassuring premonition that the events and the hour would be stronger than will and purpose.

  20. It seemed to Daniel that the air was reeking with the premonition of a heart-crushing disaster.

  21. As she did this she smiled in a way that cut Daniel to the very heart: something eternal came over him; he had a premonition of the end; he feared fate.

  22. He did not know where to seek it or how, but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him.

  23. In the ecstasy of its creative and receptive "rapport" with these it becomes aware of the presence of certain immortal companions whose vision is at once the objective standard of such ideas and the premonition of their fuller realization.

  24. Awake, depart Out of the shades of hell, Trusting the sacred spell That falls upon thy strong perplexed heart, The joy ineffable, The nameless premonition and dire pang Of love.

  25. Then he dismissed the premonition as an unreasonable fear, and with calm finger opened the message.

  26. Now he arose, and in his face there must have been some premonition of protest, for Mason stepped back and put out his hand.

  27. As the town herd was put on the long trail for Bender and the round-up hands began to spit dry for their first drink, the premonition of evil conquered him and he beckoned Creede back out of the rout.

  28. And, having a premonition of coming company, Hardy went in by the fireplace and put on a big kettle of beef.

  29. It is the woman's premonition of the sexual feeling, the dream of fruitfulness, which the patient has turned into these monstrous ideas.

  30. When, in 1903, I made the first analysis of a case of dementia præcox, there dawned on me a premonition of the possibilities of future discoveries in this sphere.

  31. Could the governor have had a premonition of what was going to happen when he wrote to his son, Feb.

  32. In this letter he seems to have had a premonition of his death, for he died a few months later.

  33. Craig seemed to be swayed between two impulses--a desire to penetrate farther and an almost controlling premonition of coming danger.

  34. His premonition of danger seemed to have returned to him, and to be driven in by the dank coolness of the cavern, the evidence of past outlawry around him.

  35. George hurried on, his premonition assuming ugly lines of reality.

  36. It was after one o'clock when he snatched the receiver from the hook again with a hopeless premonition of another disappointment.

  37. He walked off home unobserved, carrying away with him the premonition of impending misfortune, a misfortune that already lay in hiding and was stretching out irresistible arms to clutch him.

  38. The premonition rose and stubbornly grew that he would meet Yakov, Olga, or somebody else of that company.

  39. The weak, anaemic boy was oppressed by the debilitating premonition of something terrible.

  40. They did not extinguish fear, and were powerless to stop the quiet growth of a premonition of misfortune.

  41. The following morning the premonition became a certainty.

  42. The cases of premonition I have obtained are, on the contrary, relatively numerous.

  43. What renders this premonition extremely interesting is that Madame B.

  44. The facts of premonition which I have observed or controlled, and of which I have just given a few examples, cannot, I think, be reasonably regarded as coincidences.

  45. In the first place, one thing strikes us:--The premonition was not exactly fulfilled.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "premonition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apprehension; augury; clairvoyance; feeling; foreboding; forerunner; foresight; forewarning; hunch; impression; insight; intimation; intuition; lucidity; misgiving; omen; portent; prediction; premonition; presage; presentiment; intuition; lucidity; misgiving; omen; portent; prediction; premonition; presage; presentiment