All 3 Uses of
ominous
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- That sounded ominous.†
Chpt 1 *
- As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed copier of the Encyclopaedia down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me.†
Chpt 2
- Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of the tragedy.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)