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
Foster's own room was a cramped omnium gatherum, cluttered with the paraphernalia of daily living.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
A crupper is always used, and straps are attached to the back of the saddle, from which the farmer hangs his sealskin bags, containing an omnium gatherum of his lighter goods.
From A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
Mrs. Lincoln's 'Boston Cook-Book' is no mere amateur compilation, much less an omnium gatherum of receipts.
From Carving and Serving by Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln
