It was time that I was cutting loose from this ill-omened company and continuing my road Edinburgh-wards.

An ill-omened figure.

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

Perhaps they called up the same association of ideas in Thorndyke's mind, for he remarked presently: "The newsvendor is abroad to-night like a bird of ill-omen.

He was born in 1632, at Maltesmeaburn, in the parish of Corby Ravensworth, (what a name of ill-omen within ill-omen, or as Dr Johnson would say, "inspissated gloom"!)

He was born in 1632, at Maltesmeaburn, in the parish of Corby Ravensworth, (what a name of ill-omen within ill-omen, or as Dr Johnson would say, "inspissated gloom"!)

Adj. hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir [Fr.], forlorn, desolate; inconsolable &c (dejected) 837; broken hearted. unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over.

If her father learnt of the affair, and of the ill-omen connected with it, the matter would surely cause him great uneasiness.

After resting for five days, and finding their strength much restored by the food, they started for Mount Hopeless, ill-omened name.

It is a bird of ill-omen.

Numbers of bodies were thrown into it, and, floating up with the tide, were left to taint the air on its banks, while strange, ill-omened fowl, attracted thither by their instinct, preyed upon them.

Condivi directly ascribes this coldness to the intrigues of Bramante, who whispered into the Pontiff's ear that it was ill-omened for a man to construct his own tomb in his lifetime.

And instantly I answered rashly: Never will I bestow my daughter on a bird of ill-omen such as thou art.

their varied work Undertake men's work, War and poetry, Word of ill-omen, a, Wotan line, Breached, Wounded

What a bird of ill-omen you are.

Shall we go and throw the little ill-omen in the lake after lunch?" "No; I will not part with my knife; I find it very useful," I said, in a bête way.

They are far from being birds of ill-omen, however, as we see them commonly when the storm is past.

"Of late, Captain Barnaby, we seem to have taken to visiting each other rather frequently, don't you think?" It was lightly tossed off, but not without its evil implication; and I felt his eyes intently fixed upon me as he sat hunched up on the rail in his sodden sleeping-suit, like some huge, ill-omened bird of prey.

Let no ill-omened word Escape the barrier of your teeth.

Nothing worthy of remembrance, however, was done either by him or by any others either then or in the following year when Lucius Veturius and Cæcilius Metellus became consuls: this notwithstanding the fact that many signs of ill-omen to the Romans were reported.

It was a landing of ill-omen for the Fomorians, that landing beside the cairn of Eocaid; a landing of ill-omen for Indec, son of De Domnand, and for Balor of the Evil Eye.

It was a landing of ill-omen for the Fomorians, that landing beside the cairn of Eocaid; a landing of ill-omen for Indec, son of De Domnand, and for Balor of the Evil Eye.

" "I desire no such perilous honor," I replied, smiling; "it were indeed an ill-omen to have a Duke habited all in red.

Mr. Tiffles produced the ill-omened article, and handed it to her.

It needed no such day of ill-omen as a Friday to inaugurate a union which could not have been otherwise than disastrousthe union of a beautiful, romantic girl eager to exploit the world of freedom and of pleasure, and a drink-sodden man old enough to be her father, for whom life had long lost all its illusions.