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omens

noun as in sign of something to come

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No wonder they were often considered bad omens: no soothsayer could tell when one might appear.

No miracles and few omens were evident during the two-hour ceremony, but the enormous crowd will never forget it.

Balanchine danced the role of Polio and Tanaquil, the Etruscan Queen sensitive to omens, danced the victim.

The first name is that of an Etruscan Queen, one sensitive to omens.

He was very open to all sorts of omens, portents, and forces.

Owing to their strange appearance, comets were to the ancients omens of calamity.

I have sinned against thee; I had wilfully avoided thy warning omens, led on by an irresistible destiny and by a proud heart.

Besides he was the first traveller I met after those good omens; he was neither blind nor lame; assuredly therefore he was bunij.

The guests arrived before the hour of sunrise, and even then the omens had been already taken.

Men spake low of many other dreams and omens of divers kinds, and the bulk of them were of ill import.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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