ill-omen

For Sadr, that passage to Libya was one of ill-omen.

Gadhafi and the Vanished Imam Fouad Ajami 2011

This they do just before going to bed, and as soon as they rise in the morning, they look among the ashes, expecting to see the impression of Briid's club there, which if they do, they reckon it a true presage of a good crop and prosperous year, and the contrary they take as an ill-omen. 

Leap Year -- Day John 2008

I had the excuse that the two hundred miles between Lucknow and Jhansi was damned dangerous country, with pandies and the armies of rebel chiefs all over the place; I had a strong escort of Pathan Horse, but even so we went warily, and didn't sight that fort of ill-omen on its frowning rock until the last week in March.

Fiancée 2010

Thou failest not of this, O one-eye269 of ill-omen!

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So Khalifah came to his aid and tugged at it with him; but the two together could not hale it up: where upon said the fisherman, O piper of ill-omen, for the first time

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen amongst us.

Think Progress » ‘The Hero of Guantanamo’ Speaks 2006

“Nahs,” a word of many meanings; a sinister aspect of the stars (as in Hebr. end Aram.) or, adjectivally, sinister, of ill-omen.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Her mind was groping after something that eluded her experience, a something that was shadowy and menacing, and yet in some way congenial; a something that lurked in waste places, that was hinted at by the sound of water gurgling through deep channels and by the voices of birds of ill-omen.

Lolly Willowes Theodora Goss 2008

But the said birds of ill-omen had a very considerable lien on the conscience of poor Mr. Thomas Leigh, the father of Eustace, in the form of certain lands once belonging to the Abbey of Hartland.

Westward Ho! 2007

Generally considered a bird of ill-omen in November in Maine.

Sometimes affluence sucks jhetley 2006