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He rose late and dejected by presentiments he could not master: his morning meal was scarcely over, and he had already taken his hat to go to Evelyn's for comfort and sunshine, when the door opened, and he was surprised by the entrance of Lord Vargrave.
Cleopatra, warned by dreadful presentiments of what would probably at last be her fate, amused herself in studying the nature of poisons not theoretically, but practically making experiments with them on wretched prisoners and captives whom she compelled to take them in order that she and Antony might see the effects which they produced.
I almost suspect, Tournebroche, you call my attention to yonder coach for the purpose of aiding and abetting that old sharper. Cannot a carriage be on the same road as ours without causing you anxiety?" Jahel whispered to me: "I predict, Jacques, that yonder carriage brings trouble for us. I have a presentiment of it, and my presentiments have never failed to come true."
"Well," said the ensign hesitantly, "there's a sort of atmosphere about that schooner that's almost uncanny." "Oh, you had the shudders before you were ordered to board," bantered Ives. "I know it. I'd have thought it was one of those fool presentiments if I were the only one to feel it. But the men were affected, too. They kept together like frightened sheep.
The unconscious adhesions, the confused intuitions, the obscure presentiments, which decide the first faith of a people, are then of capital importance in its history.
The press of affairs and the illness of my aunt coming just at the moment when I was freed from Ardrahan, inspired me with miserable forebodings. I have always believed in presentiments. I had one. I was not mistaken.
Then his presentiments returned in greater strength than before, and he listened anxiously to the sounds outside the hut. At certain intervals he fancied he could hear rumbling noises in the distance, dull and threatening like the mutter-ings of thunder before a storm. There surely must be a storm raging down below at the foot of the mountains. He got up and went out to see. The moon was rising.
"Of what presentiments do you speak, my dear child!" said Adrienne, with surprise. "Who betrays me?" "M. Rodin!" answered the workgirl. On hearing the accusation brought against Rodin, Mdlle. de Cardoville looked at the denunciator with new astonishment.
My presentiments, being based on the deepest inductions of science, and the subtlest intuitions of the higher philosophy, are a trifle more trustworthy than yours; and I have a presentiment that the thing is impending. But you need n't congratulate me yet. Think about yourself." "That's just what I'm doing. If you tell her about this wager, I'll suicide, or clear." "Well, upon my word!
Presentiments, especially when occurring in cases of fever, are merely Will-o-the-wisps floating about in excited, diseased brains.
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