ill-omened

Example Sentences

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Protected from the sun, ignoring Piggy's ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly.

From Literature

There was no law, not even an unwritten law, against frequenting the Chestnut Tree Cafe, yet the place was somehow ill-omened.

From Literature

If it were twice as bad three days hence, I should not care, but it would be grievous indeed if Switzerland were to take leave of me with so ill-omened an aspect.

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We observed the warning and made the best possible time to a cranny in the ill-omened “Windy Cape.”

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"There!" he exclaimed, stopping just in front of me, and holding out the ill-omened book—"There! you can tell me who that is, can't you?"

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