death-boding

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The Rape of Lucrece 1914

During the nine months that I was in China I saw thousands of opium-smokers, but I never saw one to whom it could be applied that description by Lay (of the British and Foreign Bible Society), so often quoted, of the typical opium-smoker in China "with his lank and shrivelled limbs, tottering gait, sallow visage, feeble voice, and death-boding glance of eye, proclaiming him the most forlorn creature that treads upon the ground."

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

During the nine months that I was in China I saw thousands of opium-smokers, but I never saw one to whom could be applied that description by Lay (of the British and Foreign Bible Society), so often quoted, of the typical opium-smoker in China "with his lank and shrivelled limbs, tottering gait, sallow visage, feeble voice, and death-boding glance of eye, proclaiming him the most forlorn creature that treads upon the ground."

An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

Banshees, until in only a few retired districts of the west coast is the dreaded spirit still found, while in most parts of the island she has become only a superstition, and from the majesty of a death-boding angel, is rapidly sinking to a level with the Fairy, the Leprechawn and the

Irish Wonders 1878

No noise but owls 'and wolves' death-boding cries;

The Rape of Lucrece 1593

No noise but owls’ and wolves’ death-boding cries;

The Rape of Lucrece 2004