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

I found him musing over this omnium gatherum, which he protested was worse than a bread-pudding at Saratoga.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore

And that 'Helping Hands Society' of his is a curious omnium gatherum affair.

From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Machar, Agnes Maule

In their place was the unmistakable omnium gatherum of an accomplished knight of the road.

From The Twins of Table Mountain by Harte, Bret

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