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  • He remembered something his grandfather had once told him: that butterflies were a good omen.  (source)
  • Not a good omen, Curly thought sourly.  (source)
  • You'll start seeing death omens everywhere.  (source)
    omens = signs of what will happen in the future
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  • Right there and then I should have known the dream was an omen of death.  (source)
    omen = sign of something about to happen
  • For the launch of the First Five-Year Plan, Bukharin's fall from grace, and the expansion of the Criminal Code to allow the arrest of anyone even countenancing dissension, these were only tidings, omens, underpinnings.†  (source)
    omens = signs of what will happen in the future
  • Protected from the sun, ignoring Piggy's ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly.†  (source)
  • The fourth, the aged warrior Phoenix led; The fifth, Alcimedon, Laerces' son: These in their order due Achilles first Array'd, and next with stirring words address'd: "Ye Myrmidons, forget not now the vaunts Which, while my wrath endur'd, ye largely pour'd Upon the Trojans; me ye freely blam'd; 'Ill-omen'd son of Peleus, sure in wrath Thou wast conceiv'd, implacable, who here In idleness enforc'd thy comrades keep'st!†  (source)
  • A frozen flying star was a terrible omen for Trisolaris.†  (source)
    omen = sign of something about to happen
  • "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)
    omens = signs of what will happen in the future
  • There was no law, not even an unwritten law, against frequenting the Chestnut Tree Café, yet the place was somehow ill-omened.†  (source)
  • from before those ships, Escap'd from death, with horses and with car Triumphant, to the breezy heights of Troy He never shall return; ill-omen'd fate O'ershadowing, dooms him by the spear to fall Of brave Idomeneus, Deucalion's son.†  (source)
  • It seemed like a bad omen.†  (source)
    omen = sign of something about to happen
  • "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)
    omens = signs of what will happen in the future
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