Sentence examples similar to message of ill omen from inspiring English sources

But West led the club four, a bird of ill omen.

The blue-sky days have kept coming, but the weather has come to seem a kind of ill omen.

Similarly the barn owl (Tyto alba) was looked upon as a bird of ill omen, and it subsequently became a symbol of disgrace.

His new film contains the convulsive emotional hurt and sweeping visual style that characterised Hard Eight and Boogie Nights, and is an anthology of broken lives - each interleaving with the other in a lattice of ill omen and disquiet.

On the final day occurred the ceremonial sweeping out of the building, and the period of ill omen did not end until the sweepings were officially disposed of by placing them in a particular spot along the Clivus Capitolinus or by throwing them into the Tiber.

In shaping the stage action, the librettist Paul Schick picked out several episodes that McPhee's readers are sure to remember: the long-drawn-out construction of the house, a comic shakedown by his native neighbors, an unsettling call from a suspected Japanese spy, a visitation by spirits of ill omen.

Spanish science has been shaken by a series of tremors of ill omen in recent days, say online reports.

Medusa is not a bringer of ill omen, but rather a revealer of unpleasant truths.

The toad has long been considered to be an animal of ill omen or a connection to a spirit world.

This is not the first time birds of ill omen (not Hitchcock's, of course) are predicting the death of cinema.

In many post-conversion Western traditions, ravens have long been considered to be birds of ill omen and death, in part because of the negative symbolism of their all-black plumage and the eating of carrion.