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Definition
threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- It was a curious, and, as some people thought, an ominous fact, that, very soon after the workmen began their operations, the spring of water, above mentioned, entirely lost the deliciousness of its pristine quality.Chapter 1 — The Old Pyncheon Family (19% in)
- It was considered, moreover, an ugly and ominous circumstance, that Colonel Pyncheon's picture—in obedience, it was said, to a provision of his will—remained affixed to the wall of the room in which he died.Chapter 1 — The Old Pyncheon Family (66% in)
- This action, so ill-timed and extravagant,—accompanied, too, with a look that showed more like joy than any other kind of excitement,—compelled Hepzibah to dread that her stern kinsman's ominous visit had driven her poor brother to absolute insanity.Chapter 16 — Clifford's Chamber (80% in)
There are no more uses of "ominous" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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