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
Can any children make less noise than the little rosy-cheeked ones who have no existence except in the omnium gatherum of your own brain?
From International Short Stories American by Various
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
A ship that carries a numerous crew, is a sort of omnium gatherum, of human employments.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by Cooper, James Fenimore
I am bringing out a heavy memoir on elephants—an omnium gatherum affair, with observations on the fossil and recent species.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
