Heaven grant that I deceive myself, and that I take for presentiments the despairing sadness which this melancholy ceremony inspires.
From this moment, Fleur-de-Marie was struck with one of those presentiments which often have, on characters like hers, an irresistible influence.
Concerning presentimentsand dreams Mr. Lincoln had a philosophy of his own, which, strange as it may appear, was in perfect harmony with his character in all other respects.
This dream was so horrible, so real, and so in keeping with other dreams and threatening presentiments of his, that Mr. Lincoln was profoundly disturbed by it.
But it moved invisibly; and it spoke as all presentiments speak, in the Unknown Tongue.
Vaguely horrible presentimentsthrobbed in her with her pulses, flowed through her with her blood.
He had gone to breakfast with his mother, his heart charged to overflowing with presentiments of what would probably be her haughty disposition concerning such a being as Isabel, claiming her maternal love: and lo!
Again he felt presentiments of his mother's newly-revealed character.
Nor did this remarkable double-doom of his parents wholly fail to impress his mind with presentiments concerning his own fate--his own hereditary liability to madness.
Well for Pierre it was, that the penciling presentiments of his mind concerning Lucy as quickly erased as painted their tormenting images.
If destined to a future life, all we could reasonably expect to know of it now would be through hinting germs and mystic presentiments of it.
But by virtue of his humanity man loves his fellows, enjoys the scenery of nature, takes delight in thought and art, dilates with grand presentiments of glory and eternity, mysteriously yearns after the hidden God.
What are presentiments but divine wings of the spirit fluttering toward our unseen goal?
There was nothing like the ladies' or other females' presentimentsabout her prediction and her death.
He did not believe in presentiments of any sort, and he knew that ladies in an interesting condition are apt to be fanciful and to give way to gloomy ideas generally.
Doubtless there have been very many presentiments that failed to come true, enough, possibly, to make those that have been realized mere coincidences.
Despite his presentiments Henry remained in Paris, and gave orders for the immediate performance of the ceremony, as if he were anxious to have done with it, and to pass the crisis in his life which he feared.
But I cherished the hope that he had only good tidings to bring me, and mypresentiments did not deceive me.
Directly Euryale was alone with Melissa, she comforted the girl in her kind, composed manner; for the unhappy matron's gloomy presentiments had filled Melissa with fresh anxieties.
A crowd ofpresentiments rushed into her innocent and, till then, unsuspecting heart, and they were all so alarming that it was a relief to her when a shout of joy from the panoplied breasts of several thousand armed men rent the air.
Dreams, omens, and presentiments were all their work, and the means by which they gave warning of the approach of danger.
It was they who sent omens and furnished him with the understanding to interpret them, and who filled his mind with presentiments when some great calamity was impending over him, that he might perchance avoid it.
Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
In the great days, presentimentshover before me in the firmament.
Sad traces, to be sure, of what had been, as well as presentiments of what might be.
His presentiments seemed to have been fatally realized, and his hopes suddenly destroyed.
There rose upon her thoughts imaginings or presentiments of ill, which she did not like to dwell upon, but which she could not banish.
But who, in the critical hours of life, does not love to listen to presentiments and play see-saw, as it were, over the abyss of futurity?
This decree confirmed me in the presentiments I had conceived as soon as I heard of the landing of Bonaparte.
Sometimes, in a small circle, he would amuse himself by relating stories of presentiments and apparitions.
It brings a crowd of barren presentiments and conjures up veridical hallucinations that are wholly alien and idle.
Vague presentiments of evil pervaded their ranks, and the sleep of many of the warriors was broken by ill-omened visions.
David, and he climbed into the shabby cabriolet and drove away with a feeling of dread clutching at his heart; he had terrible presentiments of the fate awaiting Lucien in Paris.
His presentiments were too well founded; disaster was hovering over the house of Sechard.
Tormented by emotion, consequent upon thepresentiments to which men of imagination cling so fondly, half believing, half battling with their belief in them, he arrived in the Rue Saint-Fiacre off the Boulevard Montmartre.
The most energetic lives frequently open in gloom, as if they had in their very germ presentiments of their contrary destiny.
Prophecies, those popular presentiments of destiny, domestic prodigies, admitted by the interested credulity of numerous clients of this house, announced the throne shortly to one of these princes.
Endowed with a premature judgment, she early detected these domestic miseries, and took refuge in the good sense of her mother from the illusions of her father and her own presentiments of the future.
How should a man have presentiments o' what's comin'?
I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.
How much better it would have been had he not listened to their complaints, but had again allowed himself to be guided by the presentiments which possessed him!
Compelled by one of these instinctive presentiments which are seldom fallacious, they felt that some misfortune threatened them.
The escort rode off; the hacendero quietly continued his road, chatting with his daughter, and laughing at the sinister presentiments clouding the face of the major-domo when he took leave of his master.
I have had queer visions and many presentiments since I lived in the Valley.
Was this the explanation why over and over again she had had presentiments that Michael was in trouble, that he needed her?
I was miserable, in my short absence, with anxiety, which cost me far more than the refreshment of change could replace; but I was led to go to see the Dean by one of those strange presentiments for which I have never been able to account.
Never," I said, "have these suddenpresentiments come to me without meaning.
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