omnium gatherum
Example Sentences
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The result is a swampy omnium gatherum of a book, a disjointed, inchoate and intriguing recital for the negotiation of which the reader desperately needs a map.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I do not intend to make these letters a mere omnium gatherum of recollections.
From Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
My dear Stephen, I am very glad you like to have my omnium gatherum, and think the better of it for gaining me such a pleasant letter of acknowledgment.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard
In a very few months, her cheeks were blooming and dimpling with smiles again, and she was telling us how her party was an omnium gatherum.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
The relic-hunters had penetrated their omnium gatherum and offered fabulous sums for the quaint old bits they found there.
From Idle Hour Stories by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
