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• I'm afraid he is gone This was a bad omen, and Dale looked very hard, and then Melchior once more went down on his knees and peered into the stream, to measure it with his eyes Hah!" —  The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
• "I am not a bird of ill-omen, but, by Heaven! —  The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
• I tipped over my king and his castles Perhaps it is an omen--the King of Prussia, you know, and his fortresses. —  Lorraine A romance
• And this omen was judged by them that interpreted it by the things that followed, to look first to the condemnation of Camillus by the people, and second to the great overthrow of the city at the hands of the Gauls; both of which things will be related hereafter This day, therefore, was spent in the subduing of the enemy and in the plundering of the city; and never indeed was city more wealthy. —  Stories From Livy
• For it seems a good omen, as if promising that they may yet find the one who had worn them, as also be able to deliver her from captivity Exhilarated by the hope, they canter briskly on; and for several leagues meet nothing more to interrupt them; since that which next fixes their attention, instead of staying, but lures them onward--the tops of tall trees, whose rounded crowns and radiating fronds tell that they are palms It still lacks an hour of sunset, when these begin to show over the brown waste, and from this the trackers know they are nearing the end of the travesia_. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco

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