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Pip leaves the room, though returns a few minutes later on some odd presentiment.
The image is a fearful intimation of tragedy, a presentiment of a century of spiritual crisis.
He hoped that we could meet some other time, but I had a presentiment that a future occasion may not be possible in this world.
A presentiment of unease enveloped me before I could find my seat at the rear of the plane.
But, although he thought of it as invalid, at the same time he felt it to be the expression of a true presentiment.
I had a little bit had a presentiment of it during the exchanges with the salesman.
Immediately she had shut her eyes sensing some peculiar presentiment.
It is such a powerful presentiment of my own death that I begin to cry.
He enjoyed his time at school, although there was a presentiment of things to come when, in the summer of 1960, he was sent home for hosting a wine party in the grounds.
For every person who, warned by a presentiment of catastrophe, turned back at the last minute from boarding a plane that was shortly to crash, thousands did not.
Stupefied, she looked around, and a terrible presentiment tore her thoughts: she was floating on a dying dream.
As early as 1984 Francois Mitterrand, in a speech to the European Parliament, voiced his presentiment of a radical new departure in Europe.
How is it that those 'who have a presentiment of their death generally dread it less than others?
This unfortunate accident has upset me. I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me.
Only a vague presentiment, a slight intuition of that mystery, will briefly cross through your heart as an incentive along your path of evolution.
Why did all of this come to me as a presentiment?
In the grocery store, listening to the same talk over and over, I began to feel a superstitious fear, the presentiment that in these endless discussions something awful was being hatched.
A presentiment is primarily a mental experience of time: it is time experienced circularly, in its movement toward the future, and back to the present.
Intuition, which is clairvoyance, presentiment, and prophecy, clears the mind and makes the heart beat in response to the messages and voices it receives from the infinite.
Again the presentiment of the old one was fulfilled, for they beheld before them a caravan, composed of men, women and children, who were lost in the desert and were on the verge of perishing.
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She feels my approach, she divines it, her presentiment does not deceive her.
Michael had a presentiment that this would be the means of rescuing him from his incertitude.
He says that he no longer has the tingly feeling and he has no presentiment of evil, both of which I consider good signs.
I have a presentiment that sooner or later my position here will become untenable.
He had recourse to every superstition of sortilege, clairvoyance, presentiment, and dreams.
It seemed that Lacoste had a melancholy presentiment of the fate which was to be his.
I suppose you had a presentiment I should like him, and left him for me, mamma!
All of them are antagonistic to sense and have an affinity to number and measure and a presentiment of ideas.
There had been an obscure presentiment of 'cognito, ergo sum' more than 2000 years previously.
I had had the presentiment of this, but the certitude of it now caused me intense grief.
I have had a sort of presentiment of it ever since that evening, at the Fire of Saint-Jean.
He bit his lip in his annoyance, shivering with a presentiment.
Since early morning her blood had been whirling tempestuously within her, and her nerves were agitated by the presentiment of some great crisis.
I have a presentiment that if no other innocent atonement is made for this, it will one day be required of him.
Felicite professed to feel a presentiment that she would die rich.
This fatidical presentiment turned out unfortunately to be a fact.
Cornstalk is said to have had a presentiment of his approaching fate.
My dear Mr Podsnap, it's very foolish I know, but I have an instinctive presentiment that if Hamilton gave away anybody else first, he would never give away baby.
A presentiment of evil tidings came upon him like a darkening of the sky.
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