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 should lose all my faith in anonymous criticism, if they admitted such a crude undergraduate's omnium gatherum!
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Other legends were worked up into the omnium gatherum of Giron le Courtois, and with this the cycle proper ceases.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
But I was forgetting: you haven't a set, really; you have a bit of everything, an omnium gatherum....
From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis
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
