"Ill-boding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... new responsibilities. His first motive was, of course, to make up his father's loss to the family, as far as it was possible for him to do so, but he was also desirous of showing Mrs. Roxana Mason and other ill-boding prophets that they had ...
— Frank's Campaign - or the Farm and the Camp • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... cursed thing," he cried in scorn, "That ever such 'Luck' should be; From Muncaster's house, ill-boding ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... to the death of Commodus there were the following signs. Many ill-boding eagles wandered about the Capitol uttering cries that portended naught of peace, and an owl hooted there. [Sidenote: A.D. 191 (a.u. 944)] A fire, starting by night in some dwelling, laid hold of the temple ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) • Cassius Dio
... incidents of the past fitted into a well-connected story for which there must be some foundation. Moreover, in the corner were Blindeye Bozeman and Taylor Bill, hurrying through their breakfast that they might go to their work in the Silver Queen, Squint Rodaine's mine, less than a furlong from the ill-boding Blue Poppy. Fairchild could see that they were talking about him, their eyes turned often in his direction; once Taylor Bill nodded and sneered as he answered some remark of his companion. The blood went hot in Fairchild's brain. He rose from the table, hands ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... marriage rites, nor yet Hymeneus, nor the Graces,[56] attended those nuptials. {On that occasion}, the Furies brandished torches, snatched from the funeral pile. The Furies prepared the nuptial couch, and the ill-boding owl hovered over the abode, and sat on the roof of the bridal chamber. With these omens were Progne and Tereus wedded; with these omens were they made parents. Thrace, indeed, congratulated them, and they themselves ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... means, I'm not as usual, Ill-boding cares, and restless fears oppress me, And horrid dreams disturb, and fright, my slumbers; But yesternight, 'tis dreadful to relate, E'en now I tremble at my waking thoughts, Methought, I stood alone upon the shore, And, at my feet, there roll'd a sea ...
— The Prince of Parthia - A Tragedy • Thomas Godfrey
... salt marshes rolled away on one side of the road, lush and rank,—one solitary dead tree rising from them, with a fish-hawk's uncouth nest lumbering its black trunk; they were still as the grave; even the ill-boding bird was gone long ago, and kept no more its lonely vigil on the dead limb over wind and wave. She glanced uneasily from side to side: high up on the beach lay fragments of old wrecks; burnt spars of vessels drifted ashore to tell, in their ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various |
