Quotes About Ominous

And straight in the rear were three of the mighty mountain shapes seen full against the southern stars, tiptoeing wolf-like and lumberingly, their tall mitres nodding thousands of feet in the air. The carven mountains, then, had not stayed squatting in that rigid semicircle north of Inganok with right hands uplifted. They had duties to perform, and were not remiss. But it was horrible that they never spoke, and never even made a sound in walking.

The trees budded prematurely around Nahum's, and at night they swayed ominously in the wind. Nahum's second son Thaddeus, a lad of fifteen, swore that they swayed also when there was no wind; but even the gossips would not credit this.

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

I am going to kill you - eagerly and with great satisfaction. Perhaps I am speaking figuratively; perhaps not. You will find out. Likely too late.

Everywhere he went the shadows had teeth, and quite often an agenda.

Oh dear," Sinner said abruptly, rising to his feet. "I do believe something bad is about to happen." I looked quickly about me. "What makes you say that?" "Because Madman's music has just got all tense and dramatic.

Il castello era silenzioso come un mostro impalato.

Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet.

A hush fell over the room as the man in black stepped up to the podium.

And in the distance a toad farted ominously.

silent (and not-so-silent) threat.

The Walker is abroad," he said again. "And this night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

Rourke was the Grim Reaper with a hard-on.

But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently.

Suddenly, the window swung open and a man's silhouette appeared against a flash of lightning. The candle was blown out by the wind, leaving the room in semidarkness. Elizabeth blinked, not certain if she had really seen the man or not. "Is someone there?" "Eliz-a-beth." A shadow detached itself from the darkness and moved toward her. Her heartbeat quickened. "Cain?" "I told you I would come for you, Eliz-a-beth.

portentously

Soon thereafter, Lincoln glimpsed another "mysterious" and, he feared, "ominous" vision in his own bedroom mirror. While reclining on a lounge, he glanced up to notice a "double-image of himself in the looking-glass," one clear, the other pallid. For a moment, it was vivid; then it vanished—at first, two Lincolns side by side, then none at all.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

No, I mean I can smell somebody an' tell if they're gonna die. An old lady taught me how. Jean--Louise--Finch, you are going to die in three days.

Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean.

And then it struck him what lay buried far down under the earth on which his feet were so firmly planted: the ominous rumbling of the deepest darkness, secret rivers that transported desire, slimy creatures writhing, the lair of earthquakes ready to transform whole cities into mounds of rubble. These, too, were helping to create the rhythm of the earth. He stopped dancing and, catching his breath, stared at the ground beneath his feet as though peering into a bottomless hole.

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

It's dark outside, in that thorough way that looks like the night trying to tell you it hasn't finished.