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  • Annabeth wants to think every new camper who comes through here is the omen she's been waiting for.†   (source)
  • We laughed at the panhandler on the block, but he wasn't just an object of ridicule, he was an unsettling omen.†   (source)
  • Despite the State's early-morning maneuvers and the bad omen of the dog and Mrs. Williams, we had another good day in court.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He was not particularly given to omens, but on the other hand he had never seen this before.†   (source)
  • I felt a quickening of interest, a small eagerness that seemed like a happy omen.†   (source)
  • If the omens favor war.†   (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)
  • Protected from the sun, ignoring Piggy's ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly.†   (source)
  • To a superstitious man, the relentlessness of that unseasonal downpour could have seemed like an omen from an angry god.†   (source)
  • It was a bad omen.†   (source)
  • I liked to think that they were an omen of sorts.†   (source)
  • It was a disturbing omen.†   (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)
  • This must be an omen that her mother has just died.†   (source)
  • It is a terrible omen.†   (source)
  • At that moment, the sun came out, dazzling and brilliant: an omen of good fortune.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I didn't see it as an omen — just unavoidable.†   (source)
  • The omens had been cast, and their trajectories were straightforward, calculable, direct, and clear.†   (source)
  • The bad omen wasn't just a hearse.†   (source)
  • It was an omen: someone from Haarlem had been released!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It seemed like an omen suddenly, and she let herself turn the fear she'd felt at Phoebe's disappearance into anger.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine a worse omen?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Mom wonders if that's a good omen.†   (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)
  • 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's like an omen.†   (source)
  • It was an omen!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Today, it seemed to me, not all omens were good.†   (source)
  • I felt sure the lion was a good 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)
  • Maybe this is an omen that I shouldn't go back home ...ever.†   (source)
  • Omens, portents, messages from the gods, demon boy.†   (source)
  • You are strange visitors and I think perhaps an ill 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)
  • 'It is a name of ill omen,' said Boromir.†   (source)
  • Normally, I don't believe in omens or signs or any of that destiny crap, but the similarities between my and Cathy Earnshaw's situations were too eerie to ignore.†   (source)
  • Dolphins are animals of good omen.†   (source)
  • It must be a good omen.†   (source)
  • And the Korphe men seized this vision of their mountain as a good omen for the hunt.†   (source)
  • She knew about the weather, omens, the living, the dead, dreams and all illnesses and made a modest living with her skills.†   (source)
  • The fan seemed like an omen.†   (source)
  • There was a certain irony in the coincidence, an omen if one could believe in such things.†   (source)
  • Hunter was a man who believed in fate, omens and magic.†   (source)
  • When your neighbor called about your dream, Granny said it was an omen.†   (source)
  • The Celts, the Japanese, and the Chinese all identified the crow as a good omen from God.†   (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)
  • Lourdes insisted that the tin man had left the eyes of a dozen sacrificed children under Felicia's bed as an omen.†   (source)
  • She's survived this far and that's a good omen for her getting through having the bullet removed too.†   (source)
  • It was perhaps an omen of the joy and friendship I was to find about me.†   (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)
  • A good omen.†   (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)
  • If the night-blooming cereus was an omen of anything, it was of good weather for traveling.†   (source)
  • An omen.†   (source)
  • They see omens in everything.†   (source)
  • But I was young then and every omen was a good one.†   (source)
  • The night was loaded with omens.†   (source)
  • Whatever the case, it would seem a good omen.†   (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)
  • One of many bad omens.†   (source)
  • Thus I am entering this city, Siddhartha thought, with a charming omen.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Another long-lost omen fetching up at my feet.†   (source)
  • The omen Stillness had flipped, become Movement.†   (source)
  • His life and his path had always provided him with enough omens.†   (source)
    omens = signs of what will happen in the future
  • But the path was written in the omens, and there was no way I could go wrong," he said to himself.†   (source)
  • And continue to pay heed to the omens.†   (source)
  • Battles had been fought nearby, and the wind reminded the boy that there was the language of omens, always ready to show him what his eyes had failed to observe.†   (source)
  • He saw that omens were scattered throughout the earth and in space, and that there was no reason or significance attached to their appearance; he could see that not the deserts, nor the winds, nor the sun, nor people knew why they had been created.†   (source)
  • They've got to be visions, omens, and all that other mystical stuff that makes my brain hurt.†   (source)
  • The omen from the Fates, when I saw them snip somebody's life string.†   (source)
  • They asked if there were any bad omens for a marriage.†   (source)
  • Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen.†   (source)
  • Aureliano relaxed with the proof of the omen.†   (source)
  • She didn't know if that was an omen of sorts or even if she should attach any meaning to it.†   (source)
  • She was afraid that the vision was an omen of death, and she was grief-stricken.†   (source)
  • The bad omen did not change his solemnity, however.†   (source)
  • My dear boy, it is an omen — the worst omen — of death!†   (source)
  • I wanted to believe it was an omen, though of what, I wasn't sure.†   (source)
  • The first omen of her death was perceptible only to her.†   (source)
  • That's two shines in one day, he thought, and that ought to be some kind of good omen.†   (source)
  • Hearthstone and Blitzen just got a bad omen in the runes.†   (source)
  • Harry glanced at the ceiling and saw a clear, pale blue sky: 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)
  • Given what had happened with Meg McCaffrey, I had a hard time not seeing this as a bad omen.†   (source)
  • But that wasn't the part that was the third omen.†   (source)
  • ...omens I have been vouchsafed — what?†   (source)
  • Apollo's presence among us could be a good omen, a chance for us to ...†   (source)
  • What matter that whistling sands are an omen?†   (source)
  • The Grim's not an omen, it's the cause of death!†   (source)
  • The night before, her dreams had been furrowed with evil omens that she did not dare to decipher.†   (source)
  • I realize now there were plenty of bad omens within the next few minutes.†   (source)
  • Some interpreted this as a sign from God, an omen of unity.†   (source)
  • I don't happen to buy all of Lorraine's stuff about omens.†   (source)
  • It can't have been a death omen," he told his reflection defiantly.†   (source)
  • All of it struck me as unlikely, but the omens would fall as Amaat intended.†   (source)
  • If Crookshanks could see the dog as well, how could it be an omen of Harry's death?†   (source)
  • His eyes had fallen on another book, which was among a display on a small table: Death Omens.†   (source)
  • Seeing death omens is her favorite way of greeting a new class.†   (source)
  • You found life in the desert, the omen that I needed.†   (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)
  • Two customers came in today while you were working, and that's a good omen.†   (source)
  • "Maybe this is an omen," said the Englishman, half aloud.†   (source)
  • He had worked hard for a year, and the omens were that it was time to go.†   (source)
  • "Because of the omens," the alchemist answered.†   (source)
  • The boy became fearful; the omens told him that something was wrong.†   (source)
  • The boy, accustomed to recognizing omens, spoke to the merchant.†   (source)
  • Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world.†   (source)
  • He was thinking about omens, and someone had appeared.†   (source)
  • "Always heed the omens," the old king had said.†   (source)
  • They're called Urim and Thummim, and they can help you to read the omens.†   (source)
  • "Who is this stranger who speaks of omens?" asked one of the chieftains, eyeing the boy.†   (source)
  • During the third year, the omens will continue to speak of your treasure and your Personal Legend.†   (source)
  • They are men of the desert, and the men of the desert are used to dealing with omens.†   (source)
  • At that point, the omens will tell you that your treasure is buried forever.†   (source)
  • That's the magic of omens," said the boy.†   (source)
  • So now, I fear nothing, because it was those omens that brought you to me.†   (source)
  • The omens will begin insistently to speak of it, and you'll try to ignore them.†   (source)
  • "Learn to recognize omens, and follow them," the old king had said.†   (source)
  • When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so.†   (source)
  • Can't you just observe men and omens in order to understand the language?" the boy asked.†   (source)
  • People talk a lot about omens, thought the shepherd.†   (source)
  • Only in that way would he be able to read the omens.†   (source)
  • She had not thought of that before, but it seemed a good omen for their cause.†   (source)
  • Many years might pass between its appearances, but its coming was always viewed as an evil omen.†   (source)
  • His spies slip through every net, and his birds of ill omen are abroad in the sky.†   (source)
  • "This is a strange omen," he muttered, glancing at a worn wooden staircase.†   (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)
  • Most omens are not as dramatic as a chicken, of course.†   (source)
  • There were times he believed it was an omen of sorts, though of what, he had no idea.†   (source)
  • Le6n lets us out of the car, a good omen.†   (source)
  • You ought to dress in black feathers, Varys, you're as had an omen as any raven.†   (source)
  • Even in modern times, having a child of Neptune around has always been a bad omen.†   (source)
  • But that would be an ill omen, if it were so.†   (source)
  • Like an inadvertent omen, if an omen can be inadvertent.†   (source)
  • Here was an omen of unmistakable meaning.†   (source)
  • Howard and the stable hands clung to the propping incident as a good omen.†   (source)
  • I felt that the day was an omen of good fortune.†   (source)
  • Others had seen the same omen in those flat white clouds.†   (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)
  • Wasn't it a bad omen to have a gravestone factory marking the entrance to a city?†   (source)
  • Snow Flower's letter felt like a good omen.†   (source)
  • The fact that he'd left them on was definitely a bad omen.†   (source)
  • And a son of Neptune ...that's not a good omen.†   (source)
  • "He is a messenger, good-daughter," Lord Wyman said, "an onion of ill omen.†   (source)
  • But she was making it up, wasn't she, looking for signs and omens.†   (source)
  • Because, really, what could ill omens matter now?†   (source)
  • Rebellion everywhere, this grim omen in the sky, rioting in the city streets ...†   (source)
  • Your godly parent should have claimed you, no doubt about it, even if with only a small omen.†   (source)
  • That is an omen too, thought Tyrion, but not as hopeful.†   (source)
  • Halflings they are, as you see, yet this is not he of whom the omens spoke.†   (source)
  • The new moon shining almost at eye level was an omen of separation and an image of solitude.†   (source)
  • 'Speak not words of omen!' said the king.†   (source)
  • We conversed of signs, omens, premonitions, riddles and dreams, and ended in fierce, cold sleep.†   (source)
  • Omen-watching, divination, has nothing whatever to do with magic.†   (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)
  • This is certainly a good omen.†   (source)
  • I decided to take that as a good omen.†   (source)
  • The omens were bad.†   (source)
  • Seven of spades: an ill 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)
  • That would be a good omen!†   (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)
  • In Pakistan we don't have a culture of honoring people while they are alive, only the dead, so he thought it was a bad omen.†   (source)
  • I hoped it might be a positive omen.†   (source)
  • The first marriage proposal came from Chang's matchmaker, who went to the bonesetter and related the good omens.†   (source)
  • The season is turning on its hinges, the earth swings farther from the light; under the roadside bushes the paper trash of summer drifts like an omen of snow.†   (source)
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