ill-omened
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Ill-omened trust! whatever it contains, its presence carried blood and sorrow in its train.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane
Ill-omened were the long months through which you bore them in your womb and thankless your fourteen years of widowhood!
From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
Ill-omened speaker," said Julian, "thine is indeed a voice fitted only to sound with the midnight bell, and the screeching owl.
From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir
Ill-omened towers, with curses built, And doomed with curses to be tenanted!
From Wilhelm Tell by Martin, Theodore
Yonder on Sarjú's northern side The sacrificial ground provide; And let the saving rites, that nought Ill-omened may occur, be wrought.
From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir
