bodements

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.

The Talisman 1894

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!

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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!

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

'Sweet bodements! good!' cried Macbeth; 'who can unfix the forest, and move it from its earth-bound roots?

Tales from Shakespeare Mary Lamb 1805

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 Walter Scott 1801

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 Walter Scott 1801

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.

NPR Topics: News 2009

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.

NPR Topics: News 2009

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. —

The Talisman 2008

-- 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.

From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 George William Curtis 1858