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 is, of course, in very many cases an individuality gained by the "omnium gatherum" of such a mode of furnishing.
From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
In their place was the unmistakable omnium gatherum of an accomplished knight of the road.
From The Twins of Table Mountain by Bret Harte
I found him musing over this omnium gatherum, which he protested was worse than a bread-pudding at Saratoga.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
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 William Makepeace Thackeray
