How To Use Monition In A Sentence

  • Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
  • So, while not disavowing the memo should your Democratic staff on the select committee be taking that as a straightforward admonition?
  • The draft reflects a similar innocence about how the media operate, while presuming to call shots and issue admonitions and injunctions in an often condescending way.
  • Some traditional interpreters see this as a stern admonition - this is a loose woman, and she had better change her ways.
  • ELLIS HIXOM, with charge to meet him at such a river though the Master knew well the Captain's toothpike: yet by reason of his admonition and caveat [warning] given him at parting, he (though he bewrayed no sign of distrusting the Cimaroon) yet stood as amazed, lest something had befallen our Captain otherwise than well. Sir Francis Drake Revived
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  • We are fascinated by the idea of premonition, oracles and anything that would allow a sneak peak at the unknown. Buzzine » Joe Manganiello Interview
  • Serving as an admonition to all ladies and gentlewomen, not to mock or scorne gentlemen-Schollers, when they make meanes of love to them: Except they intend to seeke their owne shame, by disgracing them The Decameron
  • The form and content are as rigid and unchangeable as a Petrarchan sonnet or a Noh play, starting with a young person having a premonition of a catastrophic accident that saves the lives of a number of people, most of them from his own circle. Final Destination 5 – review
  • When, after a long wait, and little suspecting what was going to be said to me, I was received in audience, it appeared that I had been summoned to receive a polite but decided admonition against wounding the susceptibilities of my listeners by expressions which were not “good form,” and when I, unconscious of wrongdoing, asked which expression she alluded to, the unfortunate word “beslobber” was alleged; my young hearers were not Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • Marriage is a very real commitment and is devoid of the romantic notions and premonitions we have about it, and that we carry before engagement.
  • An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.
  • The most common parental admonition must surely be "Don't stay out late".
  • Kruger reprised banal images from the Eisenhower years, threw such admonitional captions as we don't need another hero, and presented her large, crisp montages in striking combinations of black, white and red. Graphic Content
  • To say that such admonitions are a means to preserve those from apostasy who are by other means (as suppose the absolute decree of God, or the interposal of his irresistible power for their perseverance, or the like) in no possibility of apostatizing, is to say that washing is a means to make snow white, or the rearing up of a pillar in the air a means to keep the heavens from falling. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • Die Ziet ist unendlich lang is an admonition that can be profitably invoked upon human enterprise in general far oftener than it is, but the time for this particular enterprise is very closely limited by circumstances. The Jewish Problem in America
  • Students who behave outrageously and refuse to mend their ways despite repeated admonitions should be expelled.
  • He furnishes handholds and issues both exhortations and admonitions: Readers are told, in effect, that there will be passages of extreme difficulty and complexity (and of plain longueur), but they are simultaneously assured that the effort will be rewarding and worthwhile. Literary Companion
  • Rosenberg and Feldman illustrate over and over again that the admonition is just as applicable to traffic on the information superhighway. Today's news: Faster than the speed of truth
  • Perhaps he had a premonition about what might happen in London.
  • From each and every canvas I saw that the model surveyed the viewer, resisting centuries of admonition to ingratiate herself.
  • Settling in his chair, Richard inwardly frowned and struggled to shake off the premonition Seamus's opening paragraph had evoked. SCANDAL'S BRIDE
  • This uniter, unity, or One, is the premonitor whence exists the premonition Unity, which so recurrently becomes conscious in man. Uncollected Prose
  • Obviously this sort of tendency leads a lot of people to the conclusion that you have to be really leery about urging ’something’ be done by the U.S. foreign policy establishment lest a certain militarist tendency capture that moral admonition for its own predictable purposes. Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Genocide Prevention
  • If any man shall fall by occasion, to restore such a one with the spirit of meekness, by all fair means, gentle admonitions; but if that will not take place, Post unam et alteram admonitionem haereticum devita, he must be excommunicate, as Anatomy of Melancholy
  • But when a quarter to nine struck, and he saw old Thomas beginning to fidget about with the keys in his hand, he thought of the Doctor's parting monition, and stopped the cornopean at once, notwithstanding the loud-voiced remonstrances from all sides; and the crowd scattered away from the close, the eleven all going into the School-house, where supper and beds were provided for them by the Doctor's orders. Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • It's a timely monition, and not just for Catholics. A Cardinal's Warning on China
  • It is very disheartening to read all these admonitions to this nascent antiwar movement saying that the participants are somehow being unserious.
  • She glanced at Bev and realized her friend was worried about the premonition.
  • The article concludes with an admonition from a psychologist that "We can move people to environmentally friendly behavior by simply telling them what those around them are doing. Marty Robins: Environment Matters...but So Does Freedom!
  • Handwoven baskets, ornamental wooden spoons, lengths of cloth (wrapped around me, head to foot), the admonition that I must not forget to write to them with news of my parents and bava Johnthis combination of gifts and counsel pointedly expressed the full meaning of xitsundzuxo as memento, reminder, and advice, 2 a simultaneously material and oral invocation of memory. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • Was it some physicalised premonition and I'm going to accidentally cut my hand off this evening?
  • She kept silence, with a look of superiority to all monition. New Grub Street
  • Le Corbusier's admonitions echo much of nineteenth century morality in terms of emphasis on order and health, and by inference cleanliness.
  • Perhaps he had a premonition about what might happen in London.
  • Brenner left him, with an admonition to hurry, and himself went back to the Audi. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
  • Tertiary and post-Tertiary periods, it does not suddenly make its appearance without premonition in those periods. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
  • I woke up this morning with a strange feeling of premonition; I pondered over it for a while and then carried on with the usual morning ablutions.
  • For all of his insights into our geopolitical situation and his monitions about the perilous path we're on, when one reads the two books in tandem, the effect is one of moral numbness.
  • Maybe some premonition -- some such smother at the heart as Hamlet knew -- came to him then, made him almost statue-like in his quiet and filled his face with a kind of tragical beauty. An Unpardonable Liar
  • Salvestro de 'Medici, gonfalonier, ended the admonitions, which were the basis of the Guelf terrorism, and a violent revolt of the ciompi (the poorest workmen) broke out. 3. Florence
  • Just as he had uttered the last patriotic sentiment, he received a slight admonition from behind, by the point of a gen d'arme's sword, which made him leap from the table with the alacrity of a harlequin, and come plump down among the thickest of the fray. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 4
  • In the glow of the Christmas lights, she saw a shadow crossing his features, and Natalie had a sudden pro-monition of what he was thinking. A Man Of Secrets
  • So she journeyed home - gray clad among her flowers, drawn by four hundred hands - home to the cool nave between the long columns that were fingers raised, not in admonition, but in triumphant thanksgiving for mercy, majesty, and glory. Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
  • When, after a long wait, and little suspecting what was going to be said to me, I was received in audience, it appeared that I had been summoned to receive a polite but decided admonition against wounding the susceptibilities of my listeners by expressions which were not "good form," and when I, unconscious of wrongdoing, asked which expression she alluded to, the unfortunate word "beslobber" was alleged; my young hearers were not Recollections of My Childhood and Youth
  • Any political operative who would consider attempting a backstabing operation needs to have a certain six-word monition whispered in their ear.
  • With that probably useless admonition, he resumed his perambulation about the lawns. ON A WICKED DAWN
  • It's hard to resist the premonition that Equitable's problems are far from over and more grief lies ahead.
  • I don't think that will happen given just how strident the given all the judge's previous admonitions to this panel.
  • -- Due premonition, it appears, had been publicly given of the impending tempest -- the cattle seem to have been sent out to graze, which is from Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • From the blank look on his face, Stone had a premonition that he wouldn't see any change. CORMORANT
  • Yet one of his subordinates and eventual successor, had experienced similar admonitions from a judge in 1994.
  • And let it be remembered, as an admonition to the genus irritabile of dramatick writers, that this great man, instead of peevishly complaining of the bad taste of the town, submitted to its decision without a murmur. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
  • He then went ahead with settlement building in spite of government admonitions.
  • Those prophetical, apostolical admonitions are well known to all; what Solomon, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Verse 35 even condemns them as the archetypal mischief-makers who ignored the admonitions of earlier prophets.
  • The American "captive" is beset in his struggle by "interpretations, admonitions, forewarnings and descriptions of himself by the self-appointed prophets, priests, judges and prefabricators of his travail," says Martin. Saul Bellow - Nobel Lecture
  • But one day, two years after his wedding, while lounging in a deckchair, shelling peanuts on an October afternoon, Sharma was startled by a premonition.
  • Having had a premonition of the disaster, Lane added a codicil to his will shortly before the voyage, leaving his Impressionist collection to London.
  • He had a horrible premonition that she was coming up to Rome.
  • I had a sudden premonition of the proud tower reduced to a pile of rubble overgrown by the plants that had rooted in its mossy crevices.
  • Invariably a stage manager would come out onto the forestage to give his ritual—and totally useless—admonition, “The gentlemen in the Balcony will kindly stop shooting missiles at the noods.” DesignerBlog
  • Shun" in the first admonition is harsh and has a christianist overlay, so I would substitute "avoid". Notes On Moderating A Blog
  • Thus, though the mammal type of life is the characteristic of the Tertiary and post-Tertiary periods, it does not suddenly make its appearance without premonition in those periods. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
  • 'Oh,' says the metaphysician, 'this is association: just so a strain of music reminds you of a fine passage in a book you have read, or a beautiful tone in a picture you have seen; just so the Ranz des Vaches bears the exile to the timber house, with shady leaves, corbelled and strut-supported, whose very weakness appeals to the avalanche that shakes an icicly beard in monition from the impeding crags.' The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • I am quite sure that you should not worry too much about your premonitions.
  • An ominous little black pig fills a corner in The Maids, a premonition of the murders to come.
  • The word foreboding it self means premonition of something is coming, the video and scenes, I have purposely made them mysterious, a bit unconnected, yet a bit revealing the gist of the story of the curse, that something is coming, "The Curse," a confrontation, revealed in the end of the Unveiled version. Urban Vancouver - Vancouver's community blog
  • But one day, two years after his wedding, while lounging in a deckchair, shelling peanuts on an October afternoon, Sharma was startled by a premonition.
  • He seems to take to heart the biblical admonition that a word fittingly spoken is like an apple of gold in a picture of silver (Proverb 25: 11). Vanguard
  • And though for the matter itself my judgement be in some things fixed, and not accessible by any man's judgement that goeth not my way, yet even in those things the admonition of a friend may make me express myself diversly. Bacon
  • “I accept thine admonition and beg the Almighty to remove the froward from amongst us and stablish us in His obedience and in the observance of the law and practice of His Prophet, on whom be blessings and peace!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It was illogical, but she had a premonition that Officer Hassan's instinct would prove correct.
  • Exactly when the first subtle monition of treachery reached him, by what sense it was conveyed -- Hulse never learned, for there were experiences among the finer perceptions that the blind man did not willingly discuss. Angel With No Hands
  • I know not what strange premonition or unformed surmise had made me put in my wallet the thin overdress of a parabolanus. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
  • Does anyone out there still heed the old admonition, If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all?
  • 'You handled that very competently I thought, Rupert, but your id monition to be loyal and discreet was hardly necessary. The Lighthouse
  • Platitudes, hortatory admonitions, and boilerplate solutions proffered by such international agencies as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund won't take Africans very far.
  • As we approached the house, I had a premonition that something terrible had happened.
  • Butler thus condemns the naive admonitions of the historically privileged.
  • A premonition is an early warning of future events and is dominated by physical sensations: an inexplicable feeling of unease or excitement that something bad or good is about to happen. Decoding Your Destiny
  • If this phrase was not included in the original cedula sent to Manila, but added when printed as applying to all the Indies, it is important evidence that the King felt an admonition against printing unnecessary where no facilities for printing existed. Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.
  • Lace curtains framed the apartment's only windows, and conservators have discovered multiple layers of floral wallpaper on the walls of this apartment, despite the admonitions of reformers.
  • Looming over them, the fat man's whole bowing, perspiring presence was an admonition to them not to worry. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
  • Many have been dynamic to thoughts Gods will as good as to follow a heading of a Holy Spirit, nonetheless they miss a positive forwardpropelling heart since they have been not certain if a superintendence of their premonition is unconditionally dependable. THE DANGERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE-By Watchman Nee A Fair Mitre
  • Le Corbusier's admonitions echo much of nineteenth century morality in terms of emphasis on order and health, and by inference cleanliness.
  • Thus the admonition in I Corinthians 7, where the children are sanctified by at least one believing parent - else they would be unholy, or, in other words, unconsecrated.
  • Perhaps he had a premonition about what might happen in London.
  • The regular use of this second comma is one of the early admonitions of our old friends Strunk and White, who tell us that the second comma is often referred to as the ‘serial’ comma.
  • Set against all these worries, the perks of a few quid in government money and the admonition that you need kids to support you in your old age is not exactly convincing.
  • We are all against the present US administration's heavy-handed admonitions to reform.
  • In spite of that admonition, Fichman's book is not a conventional, chronological biography.
  • It ended with Sally leaving me, fulfilling the premonition of the dream I'd woken from the morning of my meeting with the bank. BETTER THAN THIS
  • The mother was her, looking into the future with a premonition of the illness that would take her away from me. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Los Angeles is a premonition of this new civilization.
  • What a sober admonition from the remarkable gentleman from Russia. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » America Bought Me for 20 Tons of Wheat
  • Following written statements, verbal admonitions are given, software is used, and course instructors reinforce Chat limitation guidelines.
  • Thus, upon the whole, the little maiden was disposed to submit, though not without some wincing, to the grave admonitions of the Lady Hermione; and the rather that the mystery annexed to the person of her monitress was in her mind early associated with a vague idea of wealth and importance, which had been rather confirmed than lessened by many accidental circumstances which she had noticed since she was more capable of observation. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • I do think that many mysteries ascribed to our own inventions have been the corteous revelations of spirits; for those noble essences in heaven bear a friendly regard unto their fellow-nature on earth; and therefore believe that those many prodigies and ominous prognosticks, which forerun the ruins of states, princes, and private persons, are the charitable premonitions of good angels, which more careless inquiries term but the effects of chance and nature. Religio Medici
  • In meeting after meeting workers demanding action confronted the City Council, only to receive empty palliatives and arrogant admonitions that they were ‘on their side.’
  • On the other hand, there's the ALL CAPS and the spam, as well his kind of dicky admonition that this Firehawk Jalopnik
  • He had therefore not needed the vicar's admonition to contact the Thames Valley Police HQ at Kidlington. WIDOW'S END
  • In what way, by the aid of what nervous mechanism, was the startling monition conveyed? Real Ghost Stories
  • All you who feel less than competent at humour (and life) could do worse than following the wifely admonition in this New Yorker cartoon," says Paul Szabo.31st over: South Africa 149-3 (Kallis 31, du Plessis 1) Now it's seam at both ends, with Shafiul Islam coming on. Bangladesh v South Africa - live! | Rob Smyth
  • C鵰 igitur ad Ordam peruenissemus, interrogati � procuratore ipsius Eldegay, cum quo inclinare vellemus? idem quod prius apud Corrensam respondimus, dat韘que muneribus et acceptis, auditis etiam itineris causis, introduxerunt nos in stationem Principis, prius facta inclinatione, et audita de limine non calcando, sicut prius, admonitione. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Perhaps my visions are premonitions… though I doubt it greatly.
  • Apparently admonition about his lateness has no effect upon her.
  • Platonov, however, is hardly a conventionally realistic writer, since the nature of the post-Revolutionary world is that history has ended and reality has been upended, replaced by a heady brew of utopian anticipations and nightmarish premonitions. Deals
  • And while it's hard to hear yourself called deceitful and manipulative, I remember Ben Franklin's admonition that our critics are our friends, for they do show us our faults. Statement By The President
  • Franklin's admonition ‘Up sluggard and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough’ has rung in Hall's ears throughout the transformation.
  • His admonitions on their shortcomings shamed them but did not change them.
  • All the same, the extraordinary pre monition of stirring events to come stayed with him. Dearly Beloved
  • A chill, in accordance with all the cliches about premonitions and fears, went up my spine. I got up on the counter.
  • This new admonition, new warning from the government just came today.
  • There is a mystery lurking in Julie's past, a dead body in the pool house, a wizened dwarf all dressed in black: omens, premonitions, suspicions that things are not what they seem.
  • In the week after he wrote that memo, he broke his own admonition about discussing the investigation with people outside the company.
  • Kruger reprised banal images from the Eisenhower years, threw in such admonitional captions as we don't need another hero, and presented her large, crisp montages in striking combinations of black, white and red. Warning: Graphic Content
  • He could hardly forgive her active participation in the murder, but he need not consider this now, and the ghost's admonition to leave her to the work ings of her conscience plainly implies that the ghost too thinks she is reclaimable. Shakespeare
  • I wonder if she had a premonition of her own fate.
  • I wonder if she had a premonition of her own fate.
  • His admonition would dissolve in an unrestrained roar of laughter as she wickedly "shinned" up the porch post to a coign of vantage on the vine-covered roof. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories
  • His was not an imaginative nature, but a premonition is a premonition, and he had just joined the Big Five, so that his responsibilities, should anything difficult turn up, would be by no means decreased. Police at the Funeral
  • Observe, They did not hearken to Paul when he warned them of their danger, and yet if they will but acknowledge their folly, and repent of it, he will speak comfort and relief to them now that they are in danger, so compassionate is God to those that are in misery, though they bring themselves into it by their own incogitancy, nay, by their own wilfulness, and contempt of admonition. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • And when the rector took to the pulpit he delivered sermons brimming with moral admonition.
  • The Power Glove gave me a premonition of my own death.
  • In our times, this message has far more resonance than a straightforward official admonition to shape up.
  • The fable of King Midas is one of the prettiest admonitions in classical mythology against the dangerous allure of gold.
  • Scotland went ouer into Normandie, and by the aduice and good admonition of king Henrie, he granted licence vnto two bishops of his realme of Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
  • “But so prepossessed were they in favor of regularity and discipline, and in such contempt were these people held, that the admonition was suggested in vain.” George Washington’s First War
  • From the moment of the judge's admonition, the nature of vigilantism in Montana changed.
  • After each admonition, there follow “Oremus”, “Flectamus genua” sung by the deacon, and “Levate” by the subdeacon, (as before), and then a collect. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
  • Felicity to the putrid, Bronze Age admonitions of a savage sky spirit involving the ownership of desert real-estate only entombs the heart and mummifies the mind. OpEdNews
  • When Anne didn't arrive, Paul had a premonition that she was in danger.
  • A serious admonition to prepare for death and judgment, and to begin betimes, even in the days of our youth, to do so, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Each of these sculptural installations, which collectively reinforce one another even as they successfully stood alone, filled the gallery with chilling haziness and premonitions.
  • The timeliness and verity of this admonition is not arguable.
  • As if their silent company were charged With peaceful admonitions for the heart Of all-beholding Man, earth's thoughtful lord.
  • He said that she must not be "fullish," she must be "good and sensible," she must fall in with the views of those "older and wiser" than herself; finally, after his arguments and admonitions, he laid his hand on her bowed head as if silently giving a patriarchal blessing; and Mavis watched and admired, and loved him for his noble generosity in taking so much trouble about the poor little waif that had no real claim on him. The Devil's Garden
  • It can indicate premonitions or other intuitions about what is to come.
  • a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality
  • Further awakening of the inner potentials gradually bestows the supernormal powers of premonition, afflatus, telepathy, clairvoyance and prophecy.
  • My cousin's wife spent last night talking about horrible premonitions and it didn't take much to convince my cousin that they would be better off at home.
  • But when a quarter to nine struck, and he saw old Thomas beginning to fidget about with the keys in his hand, he thought of the Doctor's parting monition, and stopped the cornopean at once, notwithstanding the loud-voiced remonstrances from all sides; and the crowd scattered away from the close, the eleven all going into the School-house, where supper and beds were provided for them by the Doctor's orders. Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • We especially fear being constrained by our bodies, because every fleshly constraint is a premonition of death, the final limit our physicality places on our ambitions.
  • This uniter, unity, or One, is the premonitor whence exists the premonition Uncollected Prose
  • I know that admonition is very seldom grateful, and that authors are eminently cholerick; yet, I hope, that you, and every impartial reader, will be convinced, that I intend the benefit of the publick, and the advancement of knowledge; and that every reader, into whose hands this shall happen to fall, will rank himself among those who are to be excepted from general censure. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
  • Despite grim premonitions that digital piracy is destroying the movie industry, last year saw the highest box-office returns in Hollywood history-a record owing no small debt to the superhero movie, a genre that appears to be recessionproof: keeping studios in business with billion-dollar returns ( Undefined
  • These books betray a nostalgic admiration for a diplomatic style long out of favor, a style encapsulated in Talleyrand’s admonition to his junior diplomats: “Above all, gentlemen, not too much zeal.” Charm Offensive
  • Genesis_ referred to by the _Formula, _ Luther does not, as has been claimed, retract or modify his former statements concerning the inability of the human will and the monergism of grace, but emphasizes that, in reading _De Servo Arbitrio, _ one must heed and not overlook his frequent admonitions to concern oneself with God as He has revealed Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • He was sitting in the new, renovated bathroom with the unmistakable premonition that now he was going to be sick.
  • The most common parental admonition must surely be "Don't stay out late".
  • The prince searches for her through the white night of St. Petersburg, his mind full of confusion, premonitions and anxiety, as on the eve of an attack.
  • The tingle wound up in Tasslehoff's ears and, due to the rushing of the blood in his head, he noticed that Fizban's ad - monition to return soon was starting to get lost amidst thoughts of Dark Knights and spies and, most important of all, The Road. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
  • In the perfectly motionless flattened sphere, without the shimmer of premonition and with inconceivable suddenness, a white cross smites itself, as it were, through the sarcode. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
  • I had that thing called a premonition that something was dreadfully wrong. CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2005
  • It is therefore not me, but Christ, whom ye wrong: it is His patience that ye try in despising my admonitions, and derogating from my authority [Calvin]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • He mostly responded with admonitions and rebukes, only occasionally being pushed to think through an issue afresh, on the basis of his new Christian principles.
  • You are a marvelous inspiration, Kristin, and the admonition to let our light shine is truly realized by following our dreams. Lumiere - French Word-A-Day
  • He drew only Panurge aside, and then, making to him a sweet remonstrance and mild admonition, very gently represented before him in strong arguments, that, if he should continue in such an unthrifty course of living, and not become a better mesnagier, it would prove altogether impossible for him, or at least hugely difficult, at any time to make him rich. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • From the blank look on his face, Stone had a premonition that he wouldn't see any change. CORMORANT
  • It can indicate premonitions or other intuitions about what is to come.
  • He knew, with a fris son of premonition, that it was up to him to win this battle, and every dark fear he had ever had of his own inadequacy rose up to confront him. Dearly Beloved
  • Given that history, his admonition to the party essentially amounts to this: Do as I say, not as I did.
  • Maybe they should take another look at the Bible and its admonition that we shall be judged by what we do for the least among us.
  • Phormio too, fearing that his sailors might be frightened, and observing that they were gathering in knots and were evidently apprehensive of the enemy's numbers, resolved to call them together and inspirit them by a suitable admonition. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Central America, like those we are living through today, perhaps it was in premonition of the present crossroads, that Rubén Oscar Arias Sánchez - Nobel Lecture
  • But his rather unevangelical admonitions are going down badly even with Catholic help groups who regret his closeness to xenophobic rightists in Italy and other European countries.
  • Thus, the admonition to "treat wine as our equal" is followed immediately by a prose rendering of the early poem, "L'Âme du vin," an extended prosopopeia in which wine, from within its Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
  • _A Recantation of an Ill-led Life_, or a discovery of the highway law, as also many _cautelous_ admonitions, and ful instructions how to know, shun, and apprehende a _thiefe_, most necessary for all honest travellers to peruse, observe, and practice; written by _John Clavel_, gent. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829
  • His host didn't help either; he was distrait and taciturn, as if he had a premonition of what was to come. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
  • I had strong premonitions of doom, the unmistakable feeling I was walking into a trap.
  • The first is the Bible's admonition to those who naïvely presume that it is their simple human right to live on this hallowed ground.
  • I bet £10 on a horse called Premonition.
  • Fainter sounded the warning of the jestress in the ears of the duke's fool; so faint it became but a weak admonition. Under the Rose
  • And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
  • As always, his sermon begins slowly, with self-deprecating jokes and gentle admonitions.
  • I also liked the way premonition is explained in this regard. REVIEW: The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose
  • Our monitions usually prompt the illiberal intelligentsia to chortle and chide about the Trib's seemingly amazing ability to find a Karl Marx devotee lurking virtually everywhere.
  • Levy talks about bosomy women, cheating, illegal casinos, phony casino promotions, the false promises pitched to lotto players, premonitions, video poker, keno and roulette.
  • Levy talks about bosomy women, cheating, illegal casinos, phony casino promotions, the false promises pitched to lotto players, premonitions, video poker, keno and roulette.
  • The prince searches for her through the white night of St. Petersburg, his mind full of confusion, premonitions and anxiety, as on the eve of an attack.
  • She paid no heed to the admonitions of the trial judge.
  • Sometimes I confront them with suspicions and accusations based on premonitions, not proof.
  • For example, the time-honored admonition to make sure kids with colds or the flu rest in bed and get plenty of fluids could actually boomerang.
  • He applied in public things the Spenserian line, '_Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold_,' but neither did he forget the iron door with its admonition, '_Be not too bold_.' The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
  • No, it does not achieve the sensation of the friend's living embrace or the shock of a fraternal admonition.
  • Nor would they have listened to my admonition to refrain from any but nonviolent protests.
  • When he spots a large congregation of bodachs converging on his hometown of Pico Mundo, he has a premonition of great disaster.
  • The songwriter's lyrics are peppered with references to vampires, premonitions, smoke and mirrors, no strings attached sexual romps and Elvis rising from the dead.
  • Cùm igitur ad Ordam peruenissemus, interrogati à procuratore ipsius Eldegay, cum quo inclinare vellemus? idem quod prius apud Corrensam respondimus, datísque muneribus et acceptis, auditis etiam itineris causis, introduxerunt nos in stationem Principis, prius facta inclinatione, et audita de limine non calcando, sicut prius, admonitione. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
  • Kotane's clear insight into the problems of our movement developed in him what we call a foresight; almost a premonition. Moses Kotane
  • Our pericope is an admonition to live up to the calling of discipleship by avoiding a long list of negative behaviors and aspiring to unity in the church.
  • The mother was her, looking into the future with a premonition of the illness that would take her away from me. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • As the lives of the townspeople become inextricably intertwined with the newly arrived women, Poppy’s premonitions begin to foretell a deep unhappiness for all involved. Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan: Book summary
  • As the conversation turned to his speech, Mrs. Obama said she thought it was going to be good, a compliment that led to an admonition from the president-elect. Watching the Train Roll By - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Settling in his chair, Richard inwardly frowned and struggled to shake off the premonition Seamus's opening paragraph had evoked. SCANDAL'S BRIDE

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