I was now immeasurably alarmed, for I considered the vision either as an
omen of my death, or, worse, as the fore-runner of an attack of mania.
The people wondered as they saw them, and asked each other what all this might be; whereon Halitherses, who was the best prophet and reader of
omens among them, spoke to them plainly and in all honesty, saying:
And very much indebted for the
omen. It is a retired situation.
What, in opposition to all the
omens that declared against him, made Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon?
Without in any way divining the count's project, his friends followed him, accompanied by a crowd of people whose acclamations and delight seemed a happy
omen for the success of that project with which they were yet unacquainted.
As she rolled away, the sun came out, and looking back, she saw it shining on the group at the gate like a good
omen. They saw it also, and smiled and waved their hands, and the last thing she beheld as she turned the corner was the four bright faces, and behind them like a bodyguard, old Mr.
"Doubtless thy dream was evil, and yet more evil was the
omen of the fire that fell upon thy hut.
Never a sign of living thing had the ape-man seen, other than Ska, that bird of ill
omen, that had followed him tirelessly since he had entered this parched waste.
Partridge was in very high spirits during the whole way, and often mentioned to Jones the many good
omens of his future success which had lately befriended him; and which the reader, without being the least superstitious, must allow to have been particularly fortunate.
800-801) On the fourth of the month bring home your bride, but choose the
omens which are best for this business.
The men of Mycenae were willing to let them have one, but Jove dissuaded them by showing them unfavourable
omens. Tydeus, therefore, and Polynices went their way.
Sometimes the household both among themselves and in his presence expressed their wonder at how it had all happened, and at the evident
omens there had been of it: Prince Andrew's coming to Otradnoe and their coming to Petersburg, and the likeness between Natasha and Prince Andrew which her nurse had noticed on his first visit, and Andrew's encounter with Nicholas in 1805, and many other incidents betokening that it had to be.