Both Uses of
omen
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Do you know, Dounia, when I dozed a little this morning I dreamed of Marfa Petrovna...she was all in white...she came up to me, took my hand, and shook her head at me, but so sternly as though she were blaming me....Is that a good omen?†
Chpt 3.2 *omen = sign of something about to happen
- Such a beginning was no good omen for the end.†
Chpt 5.2
Definition:
a sign of something about to happen