How To Use Misgive In A Sentence
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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
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My mind misgives me that I shall die in bondage, and that this bold attempt will cost all our lives.
The Abbot
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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
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Dreadfully did my heart then misgive me: I was ready to faint.
Clarissa Harlowe
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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.
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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
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Yet far from welcoming an effort to provide Europe with a nascent expeditionary capability, he may misgive it.
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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
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And as you have made me fearful by your cautions, my heart at times misgives me.
Pamela
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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
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My mind doth misgive me that you are right," said Philip.
The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
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And this, that I might, if complied with, suspend the appointment I have made with Mr. Lovelace; for my heart misgives me as to meeting him; and that more and more; I know not why.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Lady Maude advised me in it, and I cannot say I repent it now, though my heart does misgive ever and again," he replied.
Heiress of Haddon
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My heart began then to misgive me a little, and I was very much fatigued; for I had no sleep for several nights before, to signify; and at last I said, Pray Mr. Robert, there is a town before us, what do you call it? —
Pamela
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But yet my heart misgives me, because of the difficulties before me, in escaping; and being so poor and so friendless! —
Pamela
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My heart, in short, misgives me less, when I resolve this way, than when I think of the other: and in so strong and involuntary a bias, the heart is, as I may say, conscience.
Clarissa Harlowe
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He used to interdooce 'em smooth ez ile athout sayin 'nothin' in pertickler an 'I misdoubt he didn't set so much by the sec'nd Ceres as wut he done by the Fust, fact, he let on onct thet his mine misgive him of a sort of fallin' off in spots.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
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I was not prepared for quite so much dispatch, and felt my heart misgive me, as if it were hovering between heaven and earth; but
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
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In truth, my heart misgives me, for I believe this incident has enlightened our enemy, and I think that he expected to be so enlightened.
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If the process misgives, which it very seldom does with women who practise it extensively, it generally happens during the second four days or the fermenting period.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
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I fear him much; and somewhat my mind misgives me lest he have met and slain Dolon as well; for
Rhesus
