It is a bad omen, Harry. I feel as if something horrible were going to happen to some of us. To myself, perhaps.
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 18. Dorian believes that the accidental shooting dead of a man during a hunt is an omen that something bad is going to happen to him. He’s right – it foreshadows his own demise. The man is later identified as Dorian’s hunter James Vane.