A series of suicide bombings had hit the city, and it seemed like an omen that confirmed the worst fears of his British friends.
The Water Festival coincides with the full moon of the Buddhist calendar month of Kadeuk – a good omen that promises a bountiful harvest.
When Abraham's life is threatened, he dreams of a cedar about to be felled, an omen that is said to have presaged the deaths of the Roman emperors Domitian and Severus Alexander.
The scandal of the Argentine match was still very much in the air, however, and we wanted above all some kind of restitution — some omen that might make the inconceivable possible.
The passenger next to Jude expires en route, an omen that works two ways: prefiguring Jude's mother's death, which will leave her alone in the house they shared, and signaling a connection between her and Sile, who's working that flight.
Although there is no evidence to back up its claim, the company contends that the site is where Genghis Khan found the whip, traditionally considered an auspicious omen, that inspired his future conquests.
It might look pretty, but as everyone in Westeros knows, any omen that seems to promise bad times will probably bring the apocalypse.
He interpreted this as an omen that foretold the Pope's beating and untimely death shortly after fighting Philip IV at Anagni; Villani wrote: "when the tamed beast kills the King of Beasts, then the dissolution of the Church will begin".
Was that an omen that we were expecting too much?
That was an omen that this would be Toms's week.
He said he took it as an omen that his family was in danger.
