All 12 Uses of
ominous
in
Gone with the Wind
- Mammy shook her head ominously.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Then an ominous murmuring arose in the crowd and from under the arbor came a humming as unmistakable as that of a hive of newly disturbed bees.†
Chpt 1.6
- "No," she said quickly, her eyes glinting up at him ominously.†
Chpt 1.6
- Gerald was ominously silent although he kissed Scarlett and pinched Melanie's cheek approvingly and called her "Cousin Melly.†
Chpt 2.10
- Then she heard an ominous sound in the driveway, outside the window, a sound that brought home to her even more sharply the imminence of Ashley's departure.†
Chpt 2.15
- The siege went on through the hot days of July, thundering days following nights of sullen, ominous stillness, and the town began to adjust itself.†
Chpt 3.19
- Scarlett hated the sight of the ominously still town now and once she had loved it.†
Chpt 3.20
- There was something ominous in the air, exactly what Ashley did not know, but he was powerless to save Scarlett from it.†
Chpt 4.32
- Without waiting for a reply, Mammy turned and left Scarlett and if she had said: "Thou shalt see me at Philippi!" her tones would not have been more ominous.†
Chpt 4.47
- There was something ominous about those words.†
Chpt 5.59
- Melanie's horror struck eyes met Mammy's and Mammy nodded ominously.†
Chpt 5.59
- For all its brightness the house was very still, not with the serene stillness of sleep but with a watchful, tired silence that was faintly ominous.†
Chpt 5.63
Definition:
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(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)