The cat must have had a presentiment that its owner was coming home soon because it waited patiently at the door beginning at 5 o'clock. From LearnThat.org.
The lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"That is simply what people call a presentiment," Alice replied. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
It was a fear which may be described as a presentiment of jealousy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)] Reference
I had, therefore, what I might have called a presentiment that my friends were in danger. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Onslow Among the Redskins] Reference
Oh, Joan, such a presentiment is a dreadful thing -- it takes one's peace and courage all away. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1] Reference
This could not be called a presentiment, but the result of a clear expectation, that some important consequence would ensue. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself] Reference
I had a kind of presentiment that they would bring me trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
I have a kind of presentiment about your going, as if something evil is coming upon us. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
presentiment had not been mistaken in her impulse: there is a kind of presentiment which never is mistaken; it was I who had for. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Another instance that came under my own observation, that which some chose to call "presentiment," was of a member in my company in East. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
I had a kind of presentiment that I would not be killed. From Wordnik.com. [Augusta County: Clinton Hatcher to Mary Anna Sibert, July 27, 1861] Reference
But during the night of the 31st August a kind of presentiment led. From Wordnik.com. [The Fur Country] Reference
Didn't I tell you I had a "presentiment" it would be better for you to do so?. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference
They've a kind of presentiment that it wouldn't be healthy for their complaint. From Wordnik.com. [Rilla of Ingleside] Reference
It has come to me, perhaps as a kind of presentiment, but I feel absolutely sure. From Wordnik.com. [The Cow Puncher] Reference
How, in the sweet days of the sweetest of summers, I laughed at your "presentiment"!. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanea] Reference
I had a kind of presentiment that one or both would fall, and my instinct was not at fault. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper] Reference
Indeed, I cannot help feeling that he had a kind of presentiment that his end was approaching. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Moved, however, by a kind of presentiment, Marfa Strogoff put questions upon questions to Nadia. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar] Reference
But yet, I had a feeling -- what people call a presentiment -- that I should never see him again. ". From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
Chance, or perhaps a kind of presentiment, at last led him into the Honourable Mr. Batulcar's theatre. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Eighty Days] Reference
The precautions I had taken were but a kind of presentiment of the vexation that was preparing for me. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
I don't know as I shall ever see you again; I had a kind of presentiment I shouldn't, and I told your mother so. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Bohemia] Reference
That fact, I am convinced, fully explains the dreadful "presentiment" which made me so miserable all the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring] Reference
I would have given much to recall those few words, for I had a kind of presentiment that they would bring me trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal]
I wished her in Nova Zembla, for I saw he was falling in love with her, and had a kind of presentiment of all that was to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
At this offer, a strange shyness, and as it were reluctant distrust, seized Maltravers -- a kind of presentiment of danger and evil. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
To "presentiment," which, for reasons already given, will not serve me. From Wordnik.com. [Unconscious Memory] Reference
"presentiment" had remained only a presentiment so far; no word came from Little Frank. From Wordnik.com. [Kent Knowles: Quahaug] Reference
"I have a kind of presentiment, -- not that I shall die, but that I shall never see Scroope again. From Wordnik.com. [An Eye for an Eye] Reference
She left Ville-Marie with a strong presentiment of success. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
A dark presentiment crossed Serge's mind, and he was afraid. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He had a sort of presentiment that his reception would destroy his hopes. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Sister herself had a strong interior presentiment that never deceived her. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Under his reserved and measured replies, she felt the presentiment of some disaster. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She foresaw a dark future, and had a presentiment that trouble had entered the house with. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
At the first words that fell from M. de Buxieres's lips, she felt a presentiment of misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He had a presentiment that she was hiding something from him, and the thought nearly choked him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I have a presentiment, I am so much afraid of myself, that I offer you, and give you, your liberty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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