Eclipses and comets, to some

Usage examples of omens.

I felt calmer now that I was no longer crawling on hands and knees, and I told him quietly that the two accidents which had happened to him had nothing extraordinary in them, and that not even a superstitious person would call them omens, that I did not consider them in that light, and that they were far from damping my spirits.

The Druids knew the craft of reading omens, and the bard-trance, and the dream-vision that comes when the priest sleeps wrapped in the hide of the sacrificed bull.

Indeed, there were any number of signs, omens and portents for folk to gabble at in those first, horrified weeks after the news arrived.

However she had to admit that the omens were still too good to ignore.

Again I thought of leaving the carnival and finding a place where the omens and portents were less disturbing.

Day secure in the knowledge that his night watch for omens had been unimpeachable, and that his white bull had gorged itself on drugged fodder.

The sacrifice was made flawlessly and the omens were declared auspicious for the meeting.

Among the omens of that change would be the resurfacing of figures from those ancient days.

The Nagual told me that there was no one in sight and yet there had been omens calling him to that house since early morning.

The trial of his new son-in-law never really eventuated, delayed by inauspicious omens, accusations of corrupt jurors, meetings of the Senate, agues and plagues.

But still he laughed, secure in the knowledge that the omens had indeed been propitious.

Thus, though I learnt my fate from evil omens even before now, I have left my fatherland to embark on the ship, that so after my embarking fair fame may be left me in my house.