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
But I was forgetting: you haven't a set, really; you have a bit of everything, an omnium gatherum....
From Small Souls by Louis Couperus
But in king Charles's time, there has been nothing but Trenchmore and the Cushion-dance, omnium gatherum, tolly polly, hoite cum toite.'
From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Edward W. (Edward Woodall) Naylor
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
They would appear to a stranger like the dish which is sometimes called omnium gatherum.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
