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
Then Creede shook his head bodingly and rode into the bunch by the spring.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
"It would be the devil and repeat for us if the widder's rooster should lick—and Bat Reeves standin' and lookin' on," suggested the Cap'n, bodingly.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
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 L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
