Oman

Examples

• Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This was an evil omen. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• And very much indebted for the omen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Death on the cards, love in the stars, and the muttered prophecies of crouching hags, terrified at the omen of flying bat, of shrieking night-bird. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There was something almost bridal in his own aspect: his large white gardenia had a symbolic air that struck Lily as a good omen. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• You took me by surprise,' said Mr Rokesmith, 'and it sounded like an omen, that you should speak of showing the Dead to one so young and blooming. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Was he a messenger, an omen of the universal dissolution into whiteness and snow? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Justinian, however, abandoned such cognomen as of evil omen, and called it The Western Pass, by which title it was generally called by the Melnosians. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Not a bad idea; the head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Thou art a thing of bad omen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This is a good omen for you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I accept the omen. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Hope beckons and sorrow urges us, the heart beats high with expectation, and this eager desire of change must be an omen of success. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It will be a good omen for me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Vholes, said my guardian, eyeing his black figure as if he were a bird of ill omen, has brought an ugly report of our most unfortunate Rick. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• All such things are of evil omen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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