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
There was that sort of strange omnium gatherum party which is to be met with nowhere else, and which for that reason alone is curious.
From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville
She had her smelling salts in her satchel, but before she could find them, Grace's satchel being an omnium gatherum of a remarkably miscellaneous character, the lad came to.
From Holiday Stories for Young People by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
And from the lips of another lady whose face she knew, she heard after she had passed, "Don't you think it's rather an omnium gatherum?"
From The Path of a Star by Sara Jeannette Duncan
After meeting her at a great omnium gatherum garden party, the acquaintance flourished.
From More Bywords by Charlotte Mary Yonge
