"Presentiment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hard together and sighed. She spake not, but her lips moved in prayer as if deprecating some danger, or combating some presentiment ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
... of the town by one of those occult impulses of the soul which lead us to follow hope irrationally. Thoughts conceived under the dominion of that spell are often realized; but we then attribute their pre-vision to a power we call presentiment,—an inexplicable power, but a real one,—which our passions find accommodating, like a flatterer who, among his many lies, does sometimes ...
— The Chouans • Honore de Balzac
... separated from them now a full day and a half, and many a change might take place—many a danger might arise in that time. In fact, he began to blame himself for having left them alone. It would have been better to have let his cattle perish. So thought he now. A presentiment that all was not right was gradually forming in his mind; and he grew more anxious ...
— The Bush Boys - History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family • Captain Mayne Reid
... servant could answer these questions that he had not understood, he began running in the direction of the house with his heart beating with excitement at the presentiment ...
— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds
... 'that it must have been a presentiment which made you all take such a fancy to that quaint old house, even though you only saw it ...
— Robin Redbreast - A Story for Girls • Mary Louisa Molesworth
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