Faint premonitions of spring already appeared; catkins drooped upon the hazels, primroses made patches of sulphur in the woods, and one almost expected to see the blackthorn in blossom.
From the future come the premonitions of the activities that are to be.
In the case of the premonitions of rain, the generalization is not so safe, for there have been exceptions.
The most sorrowful of all the phases of Columbus's character is that hapless collapse, when he abandoned all faith in the natural world, and his premonitions of it, and threw himself headlong into the vortex of what he called inspiration.
If your premonitions have ceased, it is evidence of an improved state of health, and as your physician I forbid you to indulge in them.
I have had nopremonitions lately: when I was suffering I could think of nothing.
I'm not superstitious and I don't believe in premonitions and warnings, and so forth; but in cases of waiting like mine a man suddenly gets to know that his hour has come.
As I leaned against the rail, dismissing premonitions of disaster, I could not help thinking of Miss West below, bustling and humming as she made her little nest.
Once again I studied the dim loom and tracery of intricate rigging and lofty, sail-carrying spars, thought of the mad, imbecile crew, and experienced premonitions of disaster.
If we must seek a better country, should there not be premonitions for us, breaking up, and farewells, and the hurried departure of friends who are ready before us?
It was the old struggle that he was starting through that night--the old fight of humanity from savage to Christian; and the lad fought it until, with the birth of his wavering soul, the premonitions of the first dawn came on.
And when he went home at night he found cause for the thousand premonitions that had haunted him.
It must be frankly confessed that he never judged his own premonitions and visions critically, as he did those of others.
Do not approach me again with your premonitions of death!
It is my firm conviction, that such treatment, energetically begun, and persistently carried through, will save you in spite of all these premonitions of death.
They had vague, disturbing premonitions of danger, and they feared to linger in the grove.
Their hearts filled with gloomy premonitions of impending disaster, as the storm rushed upon them.
It was the end of September before the little party returned to Moscow, driven thither by premonitions of swift-approaching winter.
It may be supposed that a great majority of premonitions received, are not recognized, or at least recorded.
It would be an easy task to fill volumes with dreams that have been received as premonitions of future events, or forecasts of desired information, which was otherwise impossible to obtain.
These thought vibrations may be received suddenly like a flash, as in the case of premonitions and warnings of danger, the sensitive state lasting but a brief time; or it may be cultivated and become permanent with the individual.
Premonitions and presentiments of coming events form a numerous class of well attested cases.
He had premonitions of a painful disease (dysuria), which soon developed fully.
There was nothing in the paragraph really to arouse so great interest on his part were it not that he was thrilled by one of those wonderful premonitions which ofttimes came to him.
Nor could she feel any of those subtle premonitions that usually warn a woman when the event is preparing in a lover's secret heart.
The sound disturbed him, bringing premonitions of the city's unrest.
For a few seconds Lucinda stood entranced with premonitions of horror.
There for weeks rested the anxious gaze of President Davis, and thence were to come the first notes of alarm--the immediate premonitions of disaster.
One of the surest premonitions of later eccentricity or nervousness is when an infant obstinately refuses to empty his bowel when placed on the chamber by the nurse and reserves this function at its own pleasure.
Their host, restless, mortified, angry, perplexed by turns, was becoming obsessed at length with dull premonitions and vaguer alarms.
With light hearts and cheering premonitions of home, we pushed along Bache Peninsula to a point near Cape Louis Napoleon.
As we stood and looked over its broad expanse to the solid floes, two miles off, there came premonitions to me of impending danger.
The setting sun brought the winter storms and premonitions of a long, bitter night.
In my case each of my premonitions related to an important crisis in my life, but often premonitions are of a very different nature.
I have had three or four very striking and vivid premonitions in my life which have been fulfilled to the letter.
No person can have had three or four premonitions such as those which I have described without feeling that such premonitions are the only certainties of the future.
Speaking on the subject of premonitions, he said that on two occasions he had had very curious premonitions of coming events in dreams.
Of premonitions, especially of premonitions in dreams, it is easy to have too much.
Although I have never seen a ghost--for none of my hallucinations are scenic--I may fairly claim to have a place in this census on the ground of the extraordinary premonitions I have had at various times of coming events.
Of the premonitions of history there are many, too familiar to need more than a passing allusion here.
I can make no claim to the proud prerogative of the seer, but upon several occasions I have had some extraordinary premonitions of what was about to happen.
I remarked that the worst of people having premonitions is that they carefully hide up their prophecies until after the event, and then no one believed in them.
Of her premonitions and dreams I could give you many instances; but as that is not the point at present, I will give you the narrative of her other faculty, that of seeing spiritual or phantasmal forms which were not visible to others.
Of the premonitions which still remain unfulfilled I will say nothing, excepting that they govern my action, and more or less colour the whole of my life.
One of the most interesting cases of premonitions occurring in a dream is that which I have received from the Rev.
If it happens not to come to pass I will never have faith in my premonitions any more, and you may chaff me as much as you please as to the superstition.
In nearly all Latin literature after Virgil we may find traces or premonitions of mediaevalism, and after mediaevalism was established it long retained, if it ever wholly lost, traces of the classical tradition.
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