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  • And did you know it's supposed to be a bad omen to tie shoes together and hang them from a nail?†   (source)
  • Overhead, a gray-matted sky hung like a bad omen.†   (source)
  • Annabeth wants to think every new camper who comes through here is the omen she's been waiting for.†   (source)
  • The sun was out now, and Hammond took it as an omen.†   (source)
  • It was a disturbing omen.†   (source)
  • I felt a quickening of interest, a small eagerness that seemed like a happy omen.†   (source)
  • It was an ill omen.†   (source)
  • " "Well, that's the only place it fits, so that's where it stays," said the daughter, irritated that her mother saw bad omens in everything.†   (source)
  • If the omens favor war.†   (source)
  • Protected from the sun, ignoring Piggy's ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly.†   (source)
  • "Listen, you're right, I think like that too, but, omens, signs, partial knowledge, there's no logical way you could …." why couldn't I ever get a sentence to come out right around her?†   (source)
  • It was a bad omen.†   (source)
  • This must be an omen that her mother has just died.†   (source)
  • Now, looking down into the nest, it seemed to him that it could serve as both a workable symbol for what he had been through (and what he had dragged his hostages to fortune through) and an omen for a better future.†   (source)
  • I liked to think that they were an omen of sorts.†   (source)
  • It is a terrible omen.†   (source)
  • I didn't see it as an omen — just unavoidable.†   (source)
  • At that moment, the sun came out, dazzling and brilliant: an omen of good fortune.†   (source)
  • It was an omen: someone from Haarlem had been released!†   (source)
  • For a moment, we sat quietly on top of the hill, staring at the speedway bathed in twilight, at this oval strip of pavement, this unsettling omen.†   (source)
  • To a superstitious man, the relentlessness of that unseasonal downpour could have seemed like an omen from an angry god.†   (source)
  • Mom wonders if that's a good omen.†   (source)
  • Their love affairs were slow and difficult and were often disturbed by sinister omens, and life seemed interminable.†   (source)
  • He's looking for an omen!†   (source)
  • I looked at its limp skeleton in the pot by the window and thought, Man, someone who believes in omens could have a field day with this one.†   (source)
  • He was not particularly given to omens, but on the other hand he had never seen this before.†   (source)
  • I'm sure most geisha would call it a bad omen that I'd spilled sake; but to me, that droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life.†   (source)
  • Today, it seemed to me, not all omens were good.†   (source)
  • They were glue-covered, sticky and thin, and as he inched them on, one tore-not a dangerous tear, just a split between the fingers, but it seemed to him an omen.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine a worse omen?†   (source)
  • Because, really, what could ill omens matter now?†   (source)
  • It was an omen!†   (source)
  • I never would have guessed that the visit from the prison alumni I laughed at in high school had been an omen of my future.†   (source)
  • It must be a good omen.†   (source)
  • If the night-blooming cereus was an omen of anything, it was of good weather for traveling.†   (source)
  • We may want to place this whole business in some bottom pit of nostalgia but in fact the men who flew these planes, and we are talking about high alert and distant early warning, we are talking about the edge of everything—well, I think they lived in a closed world with its particular omens and symbols and they were young and horny to boot.†   (source)
  • Even mainstream trainers would drop pennies in mares' water buckets to halt estrus, or exhaust themselves trying to get a mane that fell to the left—a bad omen—to fall to the right.†   (source)
  • And the Korphe men seized this vision of their mountain as a good omen for the hunt.†   (source)
  • It's like an omen.†   (source)
  • 'It is a name of ill omen,' said Boromir.†   (source)
  • Everyone continued eating and the musicians continued playing without missing a single note, but Esteban Trueba jumped up as if it were an omen.†   (source)
  • There was a sinister and unlikely coincidence exposed that was too diabolical in implication to be anything less than the most hideous of omens.†   (source)
  • Dolphins are animals of good omen.†   (source)
  • The matchmaker's announcement, although a good omen for me, meant that my father would have to work very hard to build a dowry appropriate for a higher marriage.†   (source)
  • The bad omen wasn't just a hearse.†   (source)
  • I felt sure the lion was a good omen.†   (source)
  • The fact that he'd left them on was definitely a bad omen.†   (source)
  • The Our Lady crew saw this as a bad omen, but the Boston General crew assured their counterparts that a pale, diaphoretic Stone augured a good outcome (though in truth, they had never seen him quite so pale and weak, lying prostrate on the bench, a puke basin at his side).†   (source)
  • The Celts, the Japanese, and the Chinese all identified the crow as a good omen from God.†   (source)
  • This icon, and this set of omens.†   (source)
  • Omens, portents, messages from the gods, demon boy.†   (source)
  • ON THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 21, 1776, a terrifying storm broke over New York, a storm as vicious as any in living memory, and for those who saw omens in such unleashed fury from the elements—those familiar with the writings of the Roman historian Livy, say, or the plays of Shakespeare, of whom there were many—a night so violent seemed filled with portent.†   (source)
  • She's survived this far and that's a good omen for her getting through having the bullet removed too.†   (source)
  • Lourdes insisted that the tin man had left the eyes of a dozen sacrificed children under Felicia's bed as an omen.†   (source)
  • She knew about the weather, omens, the living, the dead, dreams and all illnesses and made a modest living with her skills.†   (source)
  • Many years might pass between its appearances, but its coming was always viewed as an evil omen.†   (source)
  • Just to prove that he isn't a believer in omens, the new president has chosen to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom during his first few nights in the White House—the ghost of Abe apparently of no concern.†   (source)
  • When your neighbor called about your dream, Granny said it was an omen.†   (source)
  • Hunter was a man who believed in fate, omens and magic.†   (source)
  • His hapless head was made to taste The knuckles of my friend the Mallam: 'If you were then reciting the Koran Would you have ears for idle noises Darkening the trees, you child of ill omen?†   (source)
  • The fan seemed like an omen.†   (source)
  • A good omen.†   (source)
  • But I was young then and every omen was a good one.†   (source)
  • It was perhaps an omen of the joy and friendship I was to find about me.†   (source)
  • There was a certain irony in the coincidence, an omen if one could believe in such things.†   (source)
  • Maybe this is an omen that I shouldn't go back home …. ever.†   (source)
  • An omen.†   (source)
  • They see omens in everything.†   (source)
  • Was it their entry—duplicating the bad omen Sophie had felt only a short while before—that presaged the evil contretemps of the next fifteen minutes or so?†   (source)
  • The night was loaded with omens.†   (source)
  • My grandmother believed firmly in the existence of ghosts and the importance of heeding omens.†   (source)
  • One of many bad omens.†   (source)
  • Thus I am entering this city, Siddhartha thought, with a charming omen.†   (source)
  • Whatever the case, it would seem a good omen.†   (source)
  • When Mrs. Pritchard saw signs and omens, she exposed them calmly for the figments of imagination that they were, but this afternoon her nerves were taut and she said, "Now I've had about enough of this.†   (source)
  • The transparency of the spring evening, the all-penetrating light were a good omen, a promise of generous fulfillment of distant and far-reaching hopes.†   (source)
  • One of them wore a bright-red stocking cap with a great ball of wool hanging down behind that bounced as he jumped, like a bright omen above his head.†   (source)
  • This knowledge Joel gathered to himself by being, himself, everywhere; it decreed his own suffering and made it secret and filled with private omens.†   (source)
  • "A Joyful Omen" Mayor Cowper got off to a good start.†   (source)
  • Many must have snipped out the paragraph, put it among old letters, or between the pages of a hook, keeping it perhaps as an omen or a warning, glancing at the yellowing piece of paper with closed, secretive faces.†   (source)
  • They asked if there were any bad omens for a marriage.†   (source)
  • The omen from the Fates, when I saw them snip somebody's life string.†   (source)
  • Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen.†   (source)
  • Harry glanced at the ceiling and saw a clear, pale blue sky: a good omen.†   (source)
  • Apollo's presence among us could be a good omen, a chance for us to …."†   (source)
  • "Maybe this is an omen," said the Englishman, half aloud.†   (source)
  • What matter that whistling sands are an omen?†   (source)
  • If Crookshanks could see the dog as well, how could it be an omen of Harry's death?†   (source)
  • She was afraid that the vision was an omen of death, and she was grief-stricken.†   (source)
  • That's two shines in one day, he thought, and that ought to be some kind of good omen.†   (source)
  • I wanted to believe it was an omen, though of what, I wasn't sure.†   (source)
  • The night before, her dreams had been furrowed with evil omens that she did not dare to decipher.†   (source)
  • Given what had happened with Meg McCaffrey, I had a hard time not seeing this as a bad omen.†   (source)
  • Some interpreted this as a sign from God, an omen of unity.†   (source)
  • My dear boy, it is an omen — the worst omen — of death!†   (source)
  • omens I have been vouchsafed — what?†   (source)
  • He said that he had always dreamed of being a shepherd, and that it was a good omen.†   (source)
  • He saw it as a good omen, a sign that he was on the course of the future where all was well.†   (source)
  • The Grim's not an omen, it's the cause of death!†   (source)
  • Of course, I have known for a very long time…… The omens were never good, Harry….†   (source)
  • Two customers came in today while you were working, and that's a good omen.†   (source)
  • the omen he had been awaiting, without even knowing he was, for all his life.†   (source)
  • It can't have been a death omen," he told his reflection defiantly.†   (source)
  • Seeing death omens is her favorite way of greeting a new class.†   (source)
  • "Everything in life is an omen," said the Englishman, now closing the journal he was reading.†   (source)
  • That's a good luck omen," the Englishman said, after the fat Arab had gone out.†   (source)
  • His eyes had fallen on another book, which was among a display on a small table: Death Omens.†   (source)
  • You found life in the desert, the omen that I needed.†   (source)
  • His life and his path had always provided him with enough omens.†   (source)
  • The omens will begin insistently to speak of it, and you'll try to ignore them.†   (source)
  • "Because of the omens," the alchemist answered.†   (source)
  • But the path was written in the omens, and there was no way I could go wrong," he said to himself.†   (source)
  • He had worked hard for a year, and the omens were that it was time to go.†   (source)
  • The boy, accustomed to recognizing omens, spoke to the merchant.†   (source)
  • So now, I fear nothing, because it was those omens that brought you to me.†   (source)
  • That's the magic of omens," said the boy.†   (source)
  • "Learn to recognize omens, and follow them," the old king had said.†   (source)
  • During the third year, the omens will continue to speak of your treasure and your destiny.†   (source)
  • They're called Urim and Thummim, and they can help you to read the omens.†   (source)
  • Only in that way would he be able to read the omens.†   (source)
  • Can't you just observe men and omens in order to understand the language?" the boy asked.†   (source)
  • "Who is this stranger who speaks of omens?" asked one of the chieftains, eyeing the boy.†   (source)
  • When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so.†   (source)
  • He was thinking about omens, and someone had appeared.†   (source)
  • At that point, the omens will tell you that your treasure is buried forever.†   (source)
  • In order to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens.†   (source)
  • People talk a lot about omens, thought the shepherd.†   (source)
  • They are men of the desert, and the men of the desert are used to dealing with omens.†   (source)
  • Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world.†   (source)
  • "Always heed the omens," the old king had said.†   (source)
  • You just have to read the omens that he left for you.†   (source)
  • The boy became fearful; the omens told him that something was wrong.†   (source)
  • Most omens are not as dramatic as a chicken, of course.†   (source)
  • Le6n lets us out of the car, a good omen.†   (source)
  • There were times he believed it was an omen of sorts, though of what, he had no idea.†   (source)
  • His spies slip through every net, and his birds of ill omen are abroad in the sky.†   (source)
  • They've got to be visions, omens, and all that other mystical stuff that makes my brain hurt.†   (source)
  • Aureliano relaxed with the proof of the omen.†   (source)
  • She had not thought of that before, but it seemed a good omen for their cause.†   (source)
  • You are strange visitors and I think perhaps an ill omen.†   (source)
  • "This is a strange omen," he muttered, glancing at a worn wooden staircase.†   (source)
  • She didn't know if that was an omen of sorts or even if she should attach any meaning to it.†   (source)
  • Percy didn't care much about history, but he wondered whether landing here was a bad omen.†   (source)
  • That was something Romans typically called a bad omen.†   (source)
  • And a son of Neptune … that's not a good omen.†   (source)
  • The bad omen did not change his solemnity, however.†   (source)
  • I felt that the day was an omen of good fortune.†   (source)
  • "He is a messenger, good-daughter," Lord Wyman said, "an onion of ill omen.†   (source)
  • But that would be an ill omen, if it were so.†   (source)
  • The first omen of her death was perceptible only to her.†   (source)
  • Hearthstone and Blitzen just got a bad omen in the runes.†   (source)
  • Howard and the stable hands clung to the propping incident as a good omen.†   (source)
  • Here was an omen of unmistakable meaning.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it a bad omen to have a gravestone factory marking the entrance to a city?†   (source)
  • "You ought to dress in black feathers, Varys, you're as had an omen as any raven."†   (source)
  • But that wasn't the part that was the third omen.†   (source)
  • The omen Stillness had flipped, become Movement.†   (source)
  • They think it's an omen, a sign from heaven that the world is about to end.†   (source)
  • But each time La Madrina threw the shells, the omen was the same.†   (source)
  • Like an inadvertent omen, if an omen can be inadvertent.†   (source)
  • Snow Flower's letter felt like a good omen.†   (source)
  • But she was making it up, wasn't she, looking for signs and omens.†   (source)
  • Others had seen the same omen in those flat white clouds.†   (source)
  • Rebellion everywhere, this grim omen in the sky, rioting in the city streets ….†   (source)
  • Even in modern times, having a child of Neptune around has always been a bad omen.†   (source)
  • Another long-lost omen fetching up at my feet.†   (source)
  • I don't happen to buy all of Lorraine's stuff about omens.†   (source)
  • I realize now there were plenty of bad omens within the next few minutes.†   (source)
  • That is an omen too, thought Tyrion, but not as hopeful.†   (source)
  • An omen of blood, foretelling murder …. yes ….†   (source)
  • Your godly parent should have claimed you, no doubt about it, even if with only a small omen.†   (source)
  • All of it struck me as unlikely, but the omens would fall as Amaat intended.†   (source)
  • The omens had been cast, and their trajectories were straightforward, calculable, direct, and clear.†   (source)
  • Halflings they are, as you see, yet this is not he of whom the omens spoke.†   (source)
  • Omen-watching, divination, has nothing whatever to do with magic.†   (source)
  • "A bird coming into the house is an omen," she said.†   (source)
  • The new moon shining almost at eye level was an omen of separation and an image of solitude.†   (source)
  • We conversed of signs, omens, premonitions, riddles and dreams, and ended in fierce, cold sleep.†   (source)
  • 'Speak not words of omen!' said the king.†   (source)
  • No one in Genesee County had ever worked harder for public office, but the omens were bad.†   (source)
  • "You believe in omens?" the man called after him.†   (source)
  • 'I mean, a dog'll bite if yeh bait it, won' it — but Thestrals have jus' got a bad reputation because o' the death thing — people used ter think they were bad omens, didn' they?†   (source)
  • This is certainly a good omen.†   (source)
  • I was surprised at her saying this, as she was not a superstitious woman; but I suppose she was melancholy, for as I have noticed, those who are depressed in spirits are more likely to consider bad omens.†   (source)
  • A bad omen for a homecoming.†   (source)
  • Seven of spades: an ill omen.†   (source)
  • I decided to take that as a good omen.†   (source)
  • She took that for an omen.†   (source)
  • I hoped it might be a positive omen.†   (source)
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