25 adjectives to describe omens

And Adam strode off with his eye still turned heaven-ward, and shaking his head like some great bird of ill-omen.

"Who knoweth," thus she spake, "What evil may the Fian men o'ertake This day of evil omens.

He was disturbed, however, by unfavorable omens that came to his notice.

Yet, memorable as the reforms which it witnessed were destined to make it, no reign ever commenced with more sinister omens than that at which we have now arrived.

" "The Stygian owl gives sad omens in a thousand places.

O'er the wide heath now moon-tide horrors hung, And night's dark pencil dimm'd the tints of spring; The boding minstrel now harsh omens sung, And the bat spread his dark nocturnal wing.

Never before have the skies presented such inauspicious omens.

Yet, while we mourn the degeneracy which this transaction evinces, we behold, in its attending circumstances, joyful omens of the triumph which awaits our struggle with the hateful power that now perverts the General Government into an engine of cruelty and loathsome oppression.

In the midst of these encouraging omens, the sun dipped into the sea, illuming, as it fell, a wide reach of the chill and gloomy element.

Throbbings of the arm or eyelid, if felt on the right side, were omens of good fortune in men; if on the left, bad omens.

" We shall now proceed to notice the subject of dreams in another point of viewthat is, as being employed as a medium of divination in the cure of diseases, in which the fancies of the brain appear, in reality, to as little advantage as they do with reference to any other considerations in which such pretended omens exist.

His signal success in two operations of extreme difficulty seemed to him like two separate good omens.

Mr. Tylor observes that the examples 'prove a little too much; they vouch not only for human apparitions, but for such phantoms as demon dogs, and for still more fanciful symbolic omens.'

Other unlucky omens, too, developed.

The event was likewise foretold by unmistakable omens.

The number of the day, the stormy night, and the remembrance of his mother's death were all appropriate omens.

Everything appeared propitious, and no vessel probably ever left home under better omens.

Phoebus sends Auspicious omens, and fulfils his word,

Do not enter: awful omens Threat'ning death await thy advent. NISIDA.

Again, Manx maids bandage their eyes and grope about the room till they dip their hands in vessels full of clean or dirty water, and so on; and from the thing they touch they draw corresponding omens.

The anxious prince had heard the cannon long, And from that length of time dire omens drew Of English overmatch'd, and Dutch too strong, Who never fought three days, but to pursue.

Mr. Tylor observes that the examples 'prove a little too much; they vouch not only for human apparitions, but for such phantoms as demon dogs, and for still more fanciful symbolic omens.'

And on the 13th of July, having had our damages repaired, we resumed our voyage under more favourable omens, for we sailed with a fair wind and fine weather.

Are we not exhorted to "prove all things, and hold fast that which is good?"But to my discomfort, I generally found that this (to me so convincing) argument for feeling no alarm, only caused more and more alarm, and gloomier omens concerning me.

It is of these grave omens that the Man of God must speak.

25 adjectives to describe  omens