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
In their place was the unmistakable omnium gatherum of an accomplished knight of the road.
From The Twins of Table Mountain by Harte, Bret
I found him musing over this omnium gatherum, which he protested was worse than a bread-pudding at Saratoga.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
My dear Stephen, I am very glad you like to have my omnium gatherum, and think the better of it for gaining me such a pleasant letter of acknowledgment.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard
A very omnium gatherum that school was, and the ways of it were as rough as in any school.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
