All 9 Uses of
omen
in
Bleak House
- It is a good omen for youth, and hope, and beauty when they find themselves in this place, and don't know what's to come of it."†
Chpt 1-3
- This is a good omen for you.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- It will be a good omen for me.†
Chpt 4-6
- She became so fantastically and pressingly earnest in her entreaties that we would walk up and see her apartment for an instant, and was so bent, in her harmless way, on leading me in, as part of the good omen she desired, that I (whatever the others might do) saw nothing for it but to comply.†
Chpt 4-6
- And very much indebted for the omen.†
Chpt 4-6
- On a day of such good omen, they shall sing as much as they like.†
Chpt 4-6
- "With such an omen, it is even more necessary than usual that I should be there before the Chancellor comes in," said she, "for he might mention my case the first thing.†
Chpt 4-6
- As Mr. Jarndyce sat enjoying the image of his friend Boythorn, we observed the favourable omen that there was not the least indication of any change in the wind.†
Chpt 7-9
- 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."†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(omen) a sign of something about to happen