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I would also mildly observe that the sound of the Cherokee at full whoop—a dark-soaring and portentous cackle, an ill-boding pressure wave like a string of distant daisy-cutters—is exceedingly pleasant.

Jeep's Great Big Beast of Solid Grace Dan Neil 2011

Chrysler Group LLC The sound of the Cherokee at full whoop—a dark-soaring and portentous cackle, an ill-boding pressure wave like a string of distant daisy-cutters—is exceedingly pleasant, says Mr. Neil.

A Luxury Race Truck 2011

That will put to rest all ill-boding parallels with the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and their allegedly ominous consequences.

Dr. Vladimir A. Masch: Compensated Free Trade 2010

And thus, croaking like the ravens when they anticipate pestilence, the ill-boding sibyls withdrew from the churchyard.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

“Then you would give up this ill-boding connection, but from notions of delicacy with regard to the time?”

Cecilia 2008

'Tis a rumour ill-boding I tell, my child; they bring me word that sentence is passed upon thy life by the Argives 'vote.

Hecuba 2008

After a short and ill-boding silence, “I mean not,” said

Cecilia 2008

'Tis a rumour ill-boding I tell, my child; they bring me word that sentence is passed upon thy life by the Argives 'vote.

Hecuba 2008

  But — O malignant and ill-boding stars! — — First part of Henry the Sixth.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

He too had heard this ill-boding whistle, and the report which echoed under the tilt.

In Search of the Castaways 2003