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Example sentences for "premonitory"

Lexicographically close words:
premiums; premolar; premolars; premonition; premonitions; premunire; prenant; prenatal; prend; prendra
  1. This premonitory symptom was followed on the morning of the 18th by a terrific shock.

  2. For two hundred years the igneous forces beneath Krakatoa remained dormant; but in September, 1880, premonitory shocks of earthquake were heard in the neighborhood.

  3. There was a premonitory shock before the great one, and many took heed of its warning and escaped to places of safety, otherwise the loss of life would have been even more terrible.

  4. About four days after the first appearance of these premonitory symptoms, a red rash comes out over the face, neck, and body, which dies away, and finally disappears in about five days.

  5. A dose of fifteen drops of camphor on sugar tends to counteract a chill if taken soon after premonitory symptoms show themselves, and act as a prophylactic against cold.

  6. In some cases it will be observed to come on suddenly, with scarcely any premonitory symptoms.

  7. While the baby is awake or asleep, without any premonitory symptoms, while playing or crying, placid or excited, all at once respiration will cease.

  8. This pain in the ear, sometimes the principal cause of complaint, is often premonitory of suppuration.

  9. The usual premonitory phenomena of suffocation will indicate the mistake.

  10. Complete occlusion from stricture is almost always preceded by well-marked premonitory symptoms.

  11. This occurrence takes place when there are no prominent causes, such as diarrhoea or other nutritive disorders, nor any premonitory symptoms.

  12. The condition may be mistaken for intussusception, but can usually be distinguished by the premonitory symptoms of twisting and by the more rapid course, the sudden meteorism, and quick collapse of the latter.

  13. Navy, in a private communication to me states that hemeralopia was a frequent premonitory symptom of scurvy that occurred in the U.

  14. Then suddenly, after a premonitory quivering of her chin, she buried her face in her hands, and wept without more effort at restraint, in utter abandonment to her agony.

  15. He began to have certain qualms that he recognized as premonitory signs of weakening; and he struggled to bolster up his anger.

  16. The Arizona climate is a well known specific for pulmonary troubles, and thousands of people come down there in all stages of consumption from the first premonitory cough to the living emaciated skeleton.

  17. For weeks the premonitory signs of this outbreak had been plainly visible, but true to the red-tape conditions, the army could not move until some overt act had been committed.

  18. It is possible that under such conditions one may hear premonitory sounds, may in some sort feel distant agitations which our healthy organs are usually incapable of apprehending.

  19. Persistent insomnia is often one of the premonitory symptoms of insanity.

  20. You may remember that I advised against the making of that loan when Westfall first spoke of it," he said, after he had mastered the premonitory chill of panic.

  21. Smith stumbled forward into the black depths and the chill of the place laid hold upon him and shook him like the premonitory shiver of an approaching ague.

  22. He saw the lights of the village, and, finding the road, managed to keep on it until he reached the horse, that had become uneasy under the premonitory tumult of the storm.

  23. There are premonitory symptoms such as bearing down feeling in the pelvis, backache, frequent desire to pass water, a discharge from the vagina, and sometimes a little bloody flow.

  24. Above all save yourselves the heartbreak of feeling that you have overlooked the premonitory symptoms of the disease.

  25. The strain was tightening again, and he felt the premonitory breath of fever.

  26. Behind them the scrape of wheels, stamping of horses, and vociferous bawling of drivers sent a premonitory tingling through the blood.

  27. In spite of the premonitory tremblings, the true earthquake found Thomas Jefferson totally unprepared.

  28. But these were only the gentle heavings and crackings of the ground premonitory of the real earthquake.

  29. He was just an ordinary man, provided with no sixth sense or premonitory small voice to warn him that masculine creatures are often in real danger at the moment when they feel most secure.

  30. The same bell that had been calling so often to class would now give premonitory notice of dinner, but in a greatly changed tone.

  31. And the terror, when it comes, aggrandises the premonitory symptoms.

  32. He was conscious of a disquieting, premonitory intuition that, in some way which he could not explain, the honours were not entirely his.

  33. The stillness--he had never known silence so heavy, so full of strange, premonitory pulsings; a silence that seemed so incongruously full of clamouring whispers in his ears!

  34. A sort of relief, fierce in the breaking of the tense expectancy, premonitory in the possibilities that it held, swept Jimmie Dale.

  35. All-overish~, neither sick nor well; the premonitory symptoms of illness.

  36. A tide of impassioned determination began rising which has already set the entire East in tumultuous ferment, and which seems merely the premonitory ground-swell of a greater storm.

  37. Ancient ideals and shibboleths withered before the fiery breath of a destructive criticism, while the solid crust of tradition cracked and heaved under the premonitory tremors of volcanic forces working far below.

  38. During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, to be sure, premonitory signs of a change in attitude began to appear.

  39. A premonitory thrill shook the ear, and dropping the fingers that lay cold as marble in his, Mr. Dunbar swung himself to the station platform.

  40. All new countries have to pass through a similar state of things, and in Russia there are already premonitory symptoms of a change for the better.

  41. In more recent observations among the parochial clergy I have noticed premonitory symptoms of important changes.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "premonitory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.