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
Mrs. Lincoln's 'Boston Cook-Book' is no mere amateur compilation, much less an omnium gatherum of receipts.
From Carving and Serving by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey
In a very few months, her cheeks were blooming and dimpling with smiles again, and she was telling us how her party was an omnium gatherum.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
But I was forgetting: you haven't a set, really; you have a bit of everything, an omnium gatherum....
From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis
Can any children make less noise than the little rosy-cheeked ones who have no existence except in the omnium gatherum of your own brain?
From International Short Stories American by Various
