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Updated: May 12, 2025
Haunted by omens, dire presentiments, dark suspicions with and without cause, he was especially averse from the coronation to which in a moment of weakness he had given his consent.
THIS same morning dawned for the prince pregnant with no less painful presentiments, which fact his physical state was, of course, quite enough to account for; but he was so indefinably melancholy, his sadness could not attach itself to anything in particular, and this tormented him more than anything else.
Nothing troubled Peter; or nothing but those phantoms of the mind which seem like vague recollections, yet have also the aspect of presentiments. He often paused, with his axe uplifted in the air, and said to himself, "Peter Goldthwaite, did you never strike this blow before?" or, "Peter, what need of tearing the whole house down?
I never ignore presentiments; they are sent to us all from time to time, and if we are faithful we obey them, like a summons. One came to me years ago. It was late at night, and I was just off to bed, when suddenly it came the remembrance of a friend far off; the insistent remembrance; the certainty that he needed me, and that I must hasten to help.
Very true: there are some persons who never can make such things work; who somehow always encounter "unfavourable conditions" when they wish to test the marvellous powers of a clairvoyant; who never can make "Planchette" move in conformity to the requirements of any known alphabet; who never see ghosts, and never have "presentiments," save such as are obviously due to association of ideas.
She seemed stricken with a mortal terror of his going, yet made no effort to detain him. She, too, had presentiments of evil that shocked her whole system, and made her brightest smile something mournful to look upon. But the husband and wife had little opportunity to observe or understand the feelings that tortured them both.
If we are inferior to you in intellect, we can be your equals in devoted friendship. By the temperature allow me the word of our hearts I felt myself as near my patron as I was far below him in rank. In short, the soul has its clairvoyance; it has presentiments of suffering, grief, joy, antagonism, or hatred in others.
She shook her head. "I think not," she replied. "Why only 'think'?" She roused herself with an effort. "I don't know, Nigel," she confessed. "I can't imagine what is wrong with me. I feel shivery nervous as though something were going to happen." He looked at her curiously. This was a Maggie whom he scarcely recognised. "Presentiments?" he asked.
Arriving one night at a village not very far from the southern shores of Sumatra they learned that the hermit's presentiments were justified, and that the volcano which was causing so much disturbance in the islands of the archipelago was, indeed, the long extinct one of Krakatoa.
"During the evening Uncle Thomas found opportunities for brief chats with Paul, and had been very pleasant. "Paul appeared favorably impressed with Uncle Thomas. He hardly had deigned to notice any one except Agnes Randall and Sir Charles Chesterton. "After this ball I often felt uneasy and presentiments of dread. In dreams appeared vivid reproductions of past scenes.
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