This signifies a happy discovery, leading to a fortunate enterprise brought about to a great extent by your own patience and ability; it is also a good omen of love, friends, and increase of fortune.
This is a symbol of good fortune and delight; to the sick, a good omen of recovery.
This is a sign of a secret sadness of which those around you know nothing; to musicians, a good omen of success.
It is a good omen when a fox shows his face, so a sympathetic saying runs, "The fox gives luck to everybody, but himself is thinking of the dogs all the time.
When turned loose if it goes straight away it is a good omen, for the sickness goes with it, and by dint of loud cries and sticks and stones the animal is made to go.
There are birds of evil as well as of good omen, and the owl is here, as elsewhere, a byword of ill luck.
I thought this a good omen, and I went to them directly.
This reply, which was given as indifferently as her question, appeared to vex her; and I thought her vexation a good omen.
I waited for a reply, but perceiving that the injured party kept silence (a circumstance which seemed to me a good omen) I went on.
In Montgomeryshire, it is customary to rest the corpse on its way to the churchyard under one of these trees of good omen.
Cruciform flowers are, at the present day, all regarded as of good omen, having been marked with the Sign of the Cross, and thus symbolising Redemption.
If the hawk flies to the right when near at hand, it is a good omen; but if it flies to the right when at a distance, or to the left, whether near or far, that is a bad omen.
If the parts are much curved, it is a good omen; if straight or but slightly curved, it is a bad omen.
It becomes the old man to speak words of good omen, and to hearken to my prayer.
If it is good, show me a good omen, If it is bad, show me a bad omen.
In time of war he sent a branch drifting down the river as a good omen, and a sign to the people that they might go on with the war, sure of driving the enemy.
If it flew about above while the troops were walking along below that was a good omen; but if it flew away in the direction of the enemy it was supposed to have left the one party and gone to join the other, and therefore a calamity.
If it flew before, it was a good omen; if otherwise they went back disconcerted.
A clear white was a good omen, but if they looked dark and dingy it was a bad one.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good omen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
