Both Uses of
ominous
in
War and Peace
- "Come here, my friend..." and she ominously tucked up her sleeves still higher.†
Chpt 1 *
- The soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one seemed to hear left...left...left.†
Chpt 2ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)