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- noun Plural form of
bodement .
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Examples
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Lie there, mysterious scroll, '' he added, thrusting it under the pile of cushions; ` ` strange are thy bodements and fatal, since, even when true in themselves, they work upon those who attempt to decipher their meaning all the effects of falsehood.
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Not with thee will the stars confer; and thy dreams are foul with revelries obscene, not solemn and haunted with the bodements of things to come!
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Not with thee will the stars confer; and thy dreams are foul with revelries obscene, not solemn and haunted with the bodements of things to come!
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'Sweet bodements! good!' cried Macbeth; 'who can unfix the forest, and move it from its earth-bound roots?
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Sweet bodements [316] -- good -- but we must not reckon our chickens before they are hatched, though they are chipping the shell now.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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All, I believe, have some natural desire to consider these unusual impressions as bodements of good or evil to come.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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My fears and bodements were dispersed with the dark, and I went into the fields, not merely to perform the duties of the day, but to ruminate on plans for the future.
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My fears and bodements were dispersed with the dark, and I went into the fields, not merely to perform the duties of the day, but to ruminate on plans for the future.
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Lie there, mysterious scroll,” he added, thrusting it under the pile of cushions; “strange are thy bodements and fatal, since, even when true in themselves, they work upon those who attempt to decipher their meaning all the effects of falsehood. —
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-- depopulation; for of late years we have heard a great deal of the returning life and prosperity of the place; and Mr. Valery, I observe, retracts his earlier bodements of a speedy extinction of what little glimmer of light he still saw.
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