Both Uses of
omen
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- These, with water,—but not from the fountain of ill omen, close at hand,—constituted all the entertainment.†
Chpt 10 *omen = sign of something about to happen
- From that hour of evil omen until the present, it may be,—though we know not the secret of his heart,—but it may be that no wearier and sadder man had ever sunk into the chair than this same Judge Pyncheon, whom we have just beheld so immitigably hard and resolute.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
a sign of something about to happen