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

An ill-omened figure.

The passions which had so engrossed him when in health, now turned upon his nature, and preyed upon his vitals, like an ill-omened bird.

The deliberations of the National Convention now sitting in Dublin will be doomed to disaster unless they insist, as the first plank of their programme, on the elimination of this ill-omened root.

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.

At sight of the ill-omened bird ALL [Cackling and rocking.]

On the 5th of December, they left this ill-omened river, and steered due north.

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

Forrest was next placed at the head of an expedition which was to cross to Adelaide by way of the shores of the Great Australian Bight, along the same ill-omened route followed by Eyre, and never trodden since his remarkable journey.

Then we have the stumbling, fumbling entrance of Jack Barthwick, beatifically drunk, his maudlin babble, and his ill-omened hospitality to the haggard loafer who follows at his heels.

(Yet we, thoughtless and blind with enthusiasm, urged it on, and in our hallowed citadel stationed the ill-omened monster.)

Was it because a tribune of the people announced that there had been an ill-omened flash of lightning seen?

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.

It had folded over like the leaves of a half-opened book when they close, crushing the trees below, piling its ruins in a glacis at the foot of what had been the overhanging wall of the cliff, and filling up that deep cavity above the mansion-house which bore the ill-omened name of Dead Man's Hollow.

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.

His circus career was therefore ended, and he attributed his misfortune to the ill-omened letter Y. Just about the time of his greatest despondency war was declared between Russia and Turkey.

It had been sunless all day, and all day the blanket of clouds that beset the sky had been gathering themselves into blacker and more ill-omened density.

He turns the tables (on which this ill-omened repast is spread) against the worthy Doctor.

And when I think To reach and clasp the figure, it is gone, And some ill-omened ghastly vision comes To bid beware, and not too curiously Demand the secrets of that distant world, Whose shadow haunts me.

Said I not, you ill-omened bird, said I not, 'Il y a toujours un Dieu pour les enfans et pour les ivrognes'?So you came down with Thorne to ease the poor little fellow's mind, did you, Buckhurst?

And so we all sallied out together, each of us breathing more freely, I have no doubt, as we crossed that ill-omened threshold for the last time.

AN ILL-OMENED WEDDING XXXIX.

"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.

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