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'I ha have borne a son in my time too, but he died, whimpered the bowed sister-figure behind the chudder. 'Thou knowest he died! I only waited for the order to take away the tray. 'It is I that am the woman of ill-omen, cried the old lady penitently. Thy master gives me all the charms I now desire for my daughter's eldest, by reason is it? that he is wholly free from sin.
You are a child to me, Tess, not to know how very proper it is to write to your mother at such a time, and how wrong it would be in me to object. Where does she live?" "At the same place Marlott. On the further side of Blackmoor Vale." "Ah, then I HAVE seen you before this summer " "Yes; at that dance on the green; but you would not dance with me. O, I hope that is of no ill-omen for us now!"
Special messengers also came from the shrine of Ammon, bringing an oracular response to the effect that the Athenians would take all the Syracusans. Those oracles which made against the project, people dared not mention, for fear of saying words of ill-omen.
The bird of ill-omen is informed that the Chaldeans have been crushed, and that King Nebuchadnezzar has been slain. Jeremiah, at first dumb with astonishment, thanks God for having turned to derision his gloomy forebodings.
When news of his death came to Prague the bells of one hundred churches tolled out on that 26th of August, the Feast of St. Rufus, a day destined to be of ill-omen to Bohemia's Kings. The shadow of the hand of Habsburg hung darkly over the southern frontiers of Bohemia. Rudolph, the first Habsburg Emperor, began the famous tactics of his house, gaining power by matrimonial alliances.
It needed no such day of ill-omen as a Friday to inaugurate a union which could not have been otherwise than disastrous the union of a beautiful, romantic girl eager to exploit the world of freedom and of pleasure, and a drink-sodden man old enough to be her father, for whom life had long lost all its illusions.
There was a dead silence, when suddenly a blast of wind caught the half-open door and slammed it to violently, and in the dead silence that followed could be heard something like the cry of a bird of ill-omen or the yell of a maniac flying from the pursuit of his own soul: "Death! a bloody death a death of horror!" Gradually the last sounds of this voice died away in the distance.
Oh, yes! we protect animals, even the birds that fly wild in the woods, we surround them with attention, we make laws in their favour, why? for what? That we may have the pleasure of eating them! A halt is called. The Elder, assisted by some of the men inspect the site to see if in its vicinity there are any sort of flowers or birds of ill-omen.
"She is learning to associate me with misfortune, and will dread my presence as if I were a bird of ill-omen," Roger groaned mentally, as he recalled the several miserable occasions which, in the mind of Mildred, were inseparably connected with himself; "but some day SOME DAY, if I have to strive for a lifetime she shall also learn that it is not I who bring the trouble."
How tight the tiny pressure of that one; and how loose and cold the other! Mrs Pipchin hovered behind the victim, with her sable plumage and her hooked beak, like a bird of ill-omen. She was out of breath for Mr Dombey, full of great thoughts, had walked fast and she croaked hoarsely as she waited for the opening of the door. 'Now, Paul, said Mr Dombey, exultingly.
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