Example Sentences

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From the moment the curtains parted to reveal, on a bare, dim-lit stage, the bodingly severe entrance to the palace of Atreus, there was the sense of something ancient, awesome, implacable.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And I guess a lot of the rest of us will before this scrape gets straightened out,” muttered the high sheriff, bodingly.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

How dark it was growing! how weirdly soughed the wind among the pine tops! how bodingly the thunder growled afar!

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various

Thomas Gordon had shaken his head bodingly when he had looked at her that morning at the breakfast table.

From Kilmeny of the Orchard by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Around it wheeled a large white owl, distinguishable by its ghostly plumage through the gloom, like a sea-bird in a storm, and hooting bodingly as it winged its mystic flight.

From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison