misgive

How To Use misgive In A Sentence

• Therefore, Thomas said to Francis on a day when they had looked at the sea and eaten the shrimps, ‘My mind misgives me, Goodchild, that you go to Maryport, like the boy in the story-book, to ask IT to be idle with you.’ The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
• My mind misgives me that I shall die in bondage, and that this bold attempt will cost all our lives. The Abbot
• So that when I heard his heavy footstep advancing along the passage my heart did misgive me, and I felt that I was trembling. Tales of all countries
• Dreadfully did my heart then misgive me: I was ready to faint. Clarissa Harlowe
• The meaning of your argument I take to be this: that by the unaccountable success of the enterprize and the tame submission of the people in general, if the scheme misgive all Scotland becomes involved in the guilt, and may expect the outmost severitys this Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
• My heart, in short, misgives me less, when I resolve this way, than when Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
• Yet far from welcoming an effort to provide Europe with a nascent expeditionary capability, he may misgive it.
• As my time drew nearer, and there got to be talk of my having a new coat for the ceremony, my mind began to misgive me. The Moonstone
• And as you have made me fearful by your cautions, my heart at times misgives me. Pamela
• That it was of such importance he should go and return ere the rainy season commenced, he could not even afford a day, and that he knew, however cheerful I might talk about the matter, my heart would misgive me, when the time came for him to leave, I might not probably grant him permission to go, when it was of the most vital importance he should. Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island