Omoo

American  

[oh-moo] / oʊˈmu /

noun

1. a novel (1847) by Herman Melville.

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Example Sentences

After “Typee” and “Omoo,” none of Melville’s books made much money.

From The New Yorker

He’d been plagued by questions about the truthfulness of “Typee” and “Omoo,” and he felt shackled by having to stick to facts.

From The New Yorker

He mostly tells stories: how he glued himself to a boat he was repairing and had to rip himself free and wander off in his underpants, how he nearly sank in the Bermuda Triangle, how he has named vessels after the Herman Melville novels “Typee” and “Omoo.”

From New York Times

They’re sharing a bill, as part of the Sound It Out series, with Emilie Weibel, a vocalist and composer who builds loops and samples in real time under the guise of oMoO.

From New York Times

Thereafter Melville was often at the little red house, where the children knew him as "Mr. Omoo," and less often Hawthorne came to chat with the racy romancer and philosopher by the great chimney.

From Project Gutenberg