Warning of a sort

Usage examples of omen.

Then along comes Apropos, whose mother witnessed an omen of a phoenix.

It was one thing to know that Rama was popular, quite another to witness this enormous display of support and joy and these auspicious omens.

Even he could see that the omens were all auspicious, and began to relax.

The monarch awoke, interpreted the auspicious omen, and obeyed, without hesitation, the will of Heaven.

In 1990 a leaflet from Dangerous Visions, a bookstore in Van Nuys, alerted me that Terry Pratchett and Neal Caiman would be in to autograph Good Omens.

When I got home Pauline came down of her own free will, and I was delighted with this, which I took for a good omen.

I could not possibly guess what such a high dignitary of State could want with my humble person, yet the message made us rather anxious, for Cantarini dal Zoffo was one of the Inquisitors, that is to say, a bird of very ill omen.

A multitude of whelps came forth from the lair of this barbaric lioness, in three cyuls, as they call them, that is, in there ships of war, with their sails wafted by the wind and with omens and prophecies favourable, for it was foretold by a certain soothsayer among them, that they should occupy the country to which they were sailing three hundred years, and half of that time, a hundred and fifty years, should plunder and despoil the same.

But they were now at their camp, and the jamadars, standing together for a little, settled it that the omens being favourable, and the wrath of the Dewan feared, they would take the way to the Pindari camp next day.

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.

I took her behaviour as an omen of my approaching conquest, and did not speak to M.

I thought this reply of such favourable omen that I no longer doubted of my success.

It was the first time that she had granted me such a favour, and it seemed to me a good omen.

The worthy marchioness was delighted to receive this order, and looked upon it as a good omen, for I had tired her dreadfully.

The old men muttered that it omened ill, but Daenerys Targaryen had seen it first on the night she had burned Khal Drogo, the night her dragons had awakened.