Jan had a strong presentment that they wished him ill.
"The Emperor of Portugallia"
Selma Lagerlof
But when a man sets out to write as a serious business, proclaiming that by the nature of his publication and presentment that he is doing something he thinks worthy of the time and place in which he lives and of the people to whom he belongs, then if he does not construct he is negligible.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
He would also have added the presentment of a water-buffalo, but Hoa-mi deemed this inexpedient.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc