boding
noun
a foreboding; omen.
bodingly
-
a word derived from
boding.
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
He started in the evening from the seashore, within sight of the lit-up town where a black gibbet was still standing bodingly against the sky.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
“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 Holman Day
Yes, Rizzio!... tho I would have you fly; For bodingly I breathe the breath of evil!
From Porzia by Cale Young Rice
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
