all-foreboding

Updated: May 3, 2025

They made no noise in the soft clay, nor broke the all-foreboding silence anywhere, till the second gate swung open gratingly, yet even then nor hoarse nor shrill response came back, save distant croaking, as of frogs or owls, or the whizz of some passing night-hawk.

George Alfred Townsend - The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth