How To Use Omnium-gatherum In A Sentence
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At one of those remarkable omnium-gatherum receptions at the Tuileries, of which I have spoken in a former chapter, she heard an American lady, to whom Louis Philippe was talking of his American recollections and of various persons he had known there, say to him, “Oh, sire, they all retain the most lively recollections of your majesty's sojourn among them, and wish nothing more than that you should return among them again!”
What I Remember
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And the dinginess of the article produced at last out of an omnium-gatherum sort of kitchen cupboard, made an ominous impression upon the country girl, accustomed
Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
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I won't sink into pretension and argue that it is an art form, but I will say that it's far more than an omnium-gatherum of detritus, as its mocking gallery insists it is.
Adam Hanft: Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life
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The book, a collection of short stories, is an omnium-gatherum of works by various writers.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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A livelier and more variegated omnium-gatherum was never assembled.
Marse Henry : an autobiography,
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Look at the party itself -- a veritable omnium-gatherum of political odds and ends, huddled together under the party blanket like household gods and barn-yard refuse after a hurricane.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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In fact, there was every appearance that the tent had been for a long time used as a kind of store-room, the receptacle of a bandit's omnium-gatherum, and had been hastily prepared for unexpected inmates.
Nick of the Woods
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We have, in this little township, two "general shopkeepers," dealers in groceries, mops, calicoes, candles, and the usual "_omnium-gatherum_" of household requirements.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
