1 To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.
2 Then an ominous murmuring arose in the crowd and from under the arbor came a humming as unmistakable as that of a hive of newly disturbed bees.
3 Then she heard an ominous sound in the driveway, outside the window, a sound that brought home to her even more sharply the imminence of Ashley's departure.
4 The siege went on through the hot days of July, thundering days following nights of sullen, ominous stillness, and the town began to adjust itself.
5 There was something ominous in the air, exactly what Ashley did not know, but he was powerless to save Scarlett from it.
6 For all its brightness the house was very still, not with the serene stillness of sleep but with a watchful, tired silence that was faintly ominous.
7 To Lily this attitude was the most ominous, because the most perplexing, element in the situation.
8 The young men whose duty it was to guard the prisoner instantly passed their ligaments of bark across his arms, and led him from the lodge, amid a profound and ominous silence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 9 A house standing placidly in distant fields had to him an ominous look.
10 He thought that all the regiment was fleeing, pursued by those ominous crashes.
11 There was an ominous, clanging overture to the charge when the shafts of the bayonets rattled upon the rifle barrels.
12 I feel there is something ominous in his calm, and shall not forget this night.
13 You know I am not used to such ceremonies, and there was something ominous in the atmosphere.
14 It was the same kind of ominous voice; but these men could by no stretch of imagination be called enemies.
15 The high stillness confronted these two figures with its ominous patience, waiting for the passing away of a fantastic invasion.