I always look upon this house as an ill-omened place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

She would sweep instantly from that ill-omened palace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

And what has been the result of this ill-omened alliance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference

Devil, whilk is but an ill-omened drouthy name for a tavern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

But ill-omened events occurred to destroy our common labors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference

But the memory of her misfortunes, of the ill-omened well of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

Charles Edward, to whose ill-omened attempts to sail from Dunkirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

He turns the tables (on which this ill-omened repast is spread) against the worthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference

The ill-omened dancer had laid a chilly hand on the heart of many a wedding guest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

On Scylsday, the sacrifices at Orpine's funeral had been ill-omened to say the least.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calde of the Long Sun]

And now he was as eager to quit this ill-omened place as he had once been to reach it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

Our bivouac was an ill-omened beginning to the route march of the column under Colonel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

Christianity the most ill-omened day is that in which she separated herself from science.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880] Reference

As best I could, I explained the circumstances of the purchase of those ill-omened boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

And there he stood, with as ill-omened a visage as ever brought blight upon a party of pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

Yet there were many reasons why an Austrian marriage might be dangerous, or, at any rate, ill-omened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

Do not beget children when you are come back from ill-omened burial, but after a festival of the gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

Saturday is another ill-omened day; most children born on this day will be of heavy, dull, and dogged disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Her eyes rested as lovingly on the blighted, solitary, ill-omened view before us, as if they saw the friendly hills of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in White] Reference

As holding up the cup, gravestones, tears -- heart-tears -- seems an ill-omened cup, yet no one need to be discouraged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference

"Unless thou canst hold that ill-omened tongue of thine, there presently will be another bloody fact between thy teeth!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference

With their backs to the ill-omened house, and their faces set toward the lodge, Madge and Phil felt their hearts lighten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference

He saw her gazing east, toward the dull, dark end of the sky; just sitting there for a while, facing that ill-omened direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [2005]

The child who was born at this ill-omened crisis was Mary Stuart, who within a week became, in her own right, Queen of Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

There was something about this ill-omened place — something in the very silence which brooded there — that hinted of danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Flight]

Moncada, to whom thy birth was the source of shame and misery, and to whom thy ill-omened presence has now brought death itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference

The horse-dealer and the sergeant, who had begun to doze in their respective corners, were also disturbed by the ill-omened sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

This of itself was enough to terrify the populace, who were even more dismayed by ill-omened interpretations published by the seers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference

This seemed ill-omened to the Faithful for hitherto they had given that title only to one of the Valar, or to the Elder King himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Then, evidently impressed by something shadowed in the expression of his ill-omened Mercury, he exclaimed: 'You have more to tell me?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

One old fish-wife, the oldest woman in the village, had regarded the whole plan of teaching the children as suspicious and ill-omened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference

We used to walk tiptoe before a festival, in case we should speak ill-omened words, or frighten the house-snake, or tell an unlucky dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

"Time he grew up, time he knew how to treat enemies, time he knew real values, not ill-omened, stink-wind, fatuous Golden Mountain values.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]