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an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come- Yet landbirds flying from starboard crossed his bow- a lucky augury.Homer -- The Odyssey
- Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- For an augury of good or evil?James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Then a cry of vengeance burst at once, as it might be, from the united lips of the nation; a frightful augury of their ruthless intentions.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- The magistrate observed me with a keen eye and of course drew an unfavourable augury from my manner.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- They are an augury to a terrible end because this carnal pleasure will doom Mary, though she does not know it as yet, but he, watching the scene, does.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- And 'augury' doesn't begin O — R — G either.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- This smile appeared to d'Artagnan to be of bad augury.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- They built the city over those dead hones, and for her, who first had chosen the place, they called it Mantua, without other augury.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- In turn I recalled each one I had seen, and tried to draw some augury of assistance from my memory.H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- And so the conclusion and augury which I draw, even though no philosopher, is this.William Faulkner -- Absalom, Absalom!
- She listened, finding in the sweet treble notes an augury for her future.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- Here I watched the birds for augury.James Joyce -- Ulysses
- But the augury was without warrant.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- Let not my pray'rs a doubtful answer find; But in clear auguries unveil thy mind.'Virgil -- The Aeneid
- Then, also, the augury of ill-success, uttered from the sure wisdom of experience, fell upon her half-dead hope like a clod into a grave.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- Once again (I speak now from the vantage point of hindsight) Nathan was dealing in small auguries of the world to come.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- He was not bound, nor had they made any attempt to handcuff him; this seemed a good augury.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- We must consult the auguries before we decide what to do with him.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- Do you consult them for your auguries?Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena