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Example sentences for "good omen"

  • Soon the sun came out, and taking it as a good omen, I cleared up likewise and enjoyed my journey with all my heart.

  • As she rolled away, the sun came out, and looking back, she saw it shining on the group at the gate like a good omen.

  • Renault Vidal brings it, 'twill be the first time he has proved a bird of good omen.

  • The worthy marchioness was delighted to receive this order, and looked upon it as a good omen, for I had tired her dreadfully.

  • When I got home Pauline came down of her own free will, and I was delighted with this, which I took for a good omen.

  • Tis a good omen," said he, "and without any superstition I believe that the good genius of the lottery has brought me to Berlin just now.

  • Wherefore the fruit called daidai has become a fruit of good omen.

  • Next in order of good omen is dreaming of a falcon (taka).

  • It is held to be a tree of good omen, because no one of its old leaves ever falls off before a new one, growing behind it, has well developed.

  • To dream of a cow is a good omen; to dream of a horse is lucky, but it signifies travelling.

  • His name, mistress, is a good omen in itself.

  • Footnote 70: A good omen, in the case of a man.

  • Delighted, then, with what seemed to me to be a good omen, I began to dress gleefully.

  • It was fairy-like and somewhat crazy, but it seemed to me that it must be a good omen.

  • They saluted, and I took this as a good omen.

  • A good omen of prosperity and coming happiness.

  • This signifies a happy discovery, leading to a fortunate enterprise brought about to a great extent by your own patience and ability; it is also a good omen of love, friends, and increase of fortune.

  • This is a symbol of good fortune and delight; to the sick, a good omen of recovery.

  • This is a sign of a secret sadness of which those around you know nothing; to musicians, a good omen of success.

  • It is a good omen when a fox shows his face, so a sympathetic saying runs, "The fox gives luck to everybody, but himself is thinking of the dogs all the time.

  • When turned loose if it goes straight away it is a good omen, for the sickness goes with it, and by dint of loud cries and sticks and stones the animal is made to go.

  • There are birds of evil as well as of good omen, and the owl is here, as elsewhere, a byword of ill luck.

  • I thought this a good omen, and I went to them directly.

  • This reply, which was given as indifferently as her question, appeared to vex her; and I thought her vexation a good omen.

  • I waited for a reply, but perceiving that the injured party kept silence (a circumstance which seemed to me a good omen) I went on.

  • In Montgomeryshire, it is customary to rest the corpse on its way to the churchyard under one of these trees of good omen.

  • Cruciform flowers are, at the present day, all regarded as of good omen, having been marked with the Sign of the Cross, and thus symbolising Redemption.

  • If the hawk flies to the right when near at hand, it is a good omen; but if it flies to the right when at a distance, or to the left, whether near or far, that is a bad omen.

  • If the parts are much curved, it is a good omen; if straight or but slightly curved, it is a bad omen.

  • It becomes the old man to speak words of good omen, and to hearken to my prayer.

  • As a bird of good omen it is mentioned also in "Cymbeline" (i.

  • When it came as a double flame it was called Castor and Pollux, and accounted a good omen.

  • The Romans considered the eagle a bird of good omen, and its presence in time of battle was supposed to foretell victory.

  • Among the Germans the notes of the cuckoo, when heard in spring for the first time, are considered a good omen.

  • The sound of a lizard's chuckle is considered a good omen at this juncture.

  • If it is good, show me a good omen, If it is bad, show me a bad omen.

  • In time of war he sent a branch drifting down the river as a good omen, and a sign to the people that they might go on with the war, sure of driving the enemy.

  • If it flew about above while the troops were walking along below that was a good omen; but if it flew away in the direction of the enemy it was supposed to have left the one party and gone to join the other, and therefore a calamity.

  • If it flew before, it was a good omen; if otherwise they went back disconcerted.

  • A clear white was a good omen, but if they looked dark and dingy it was a bad one.

  • I heard him sing out, 'a good omen--a good omen!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good advice; good breakfast; good condition; good customer; good digestion; good drink; good farmer; good humour; good judgment; good little; good looks; good memory; good money; good neighbour; good piece; good republican; good sermon; good sign; good state; good stuff; good subject; good teacher; good truth; much mistaken; much the same manner; two and