"Premonition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Poor Randall! Some premonition of his doom haunted him. He had saved some money, and by investments accumulated a little purse of twenty thousand dollars or so. And this, and all his estate, he willed to Mr. Witherspoon, as a wedding present ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
... [The absence of reasoning.] [False or vicious reasoning; show of reason.] — N. intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling; presentiment, premonition; rule of thumb; superstition; astrology^; faith (supposition) 514. sophistry, paralogy^, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet^, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness &c adj.; nonsense &c 497; word sense, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... for whose sake, could he in some way have compassed her surer and greater happiness, he would gladly have lived half his life over again, working with every moment of it to add to her joy. But an instinctive premonition warned him that the sands in Time's hour-glass were for him running to an end,—there was no leisure left to him now for any new scheme or plan by which he could improve or strengthen that which he had already accomplished. He realised this fully, with a passing ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... heart began to throb faster, and, with the keen premonition of a jealous soul, she recognised in ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... went there many of her friends urged her to give up the expedition. Her maid had a premonition that the enterprise would end in disaster, and had begged her mistress to stay ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan
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