Sample Sentences foraugury (editor-reviewed)
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The ancient Romans practiced augury by observing the flight patterns of birds before making important military decisions.augury = predicting the future through signs
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Dark clouds gathering on their wedding day seemed like an augury of troubles ahead in their marriage.augury = an omen or sign of what's to come
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As the dark clouds rolled in on the morning of the picnic, she took it as a bad augury for how the day would go.augury = omen or sign
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And 'augury' doesn't begin O — R — G either.† (source)
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The magistrate observed me with a keen eye and of course drew an unfavourable augury from my manner.† (source)
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If I know Octavian, he's searching for us with his auguries.† (source)
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It might have been some object of my own past, some augury in reverse, stately rustic and high-ceilinged and mothballed in the unused rooms, with thick scratchy blankets on the guest beds, bearing college emblems—the promise of things I'd never had but somehow seemed to know, collectively, at the edge of memory.† (source)
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'Well,' said the undertaker's wife, when Oliver had finished his supper: which she had regarded in silent horror, and with fearful auguries of his future appetite: 'have you done?'† (source)
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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.† (source)
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The King sits alone in the highest tower of his lavish palace, from which he is observing the stars and interpreting the omens and auguries for the next week.† (source)
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Nathan had seemed so certain and knowledgeable about other matters that in this case, too, his augury might be correct, and in a sudden weird vision—all the more demeaning because of its blatant competitiveness—I saw myself running a pale tenth in a literary track race, coughing on the dust of a pounding fast-footed horde of Bellows and Schwartzes and Levys and Mandelbaums.† (source)
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But we have no fair ground for entertaining unfavourable auguries concerning Arthur Donnithorne, who this morning proves himself capable of a prudent resolution founded on conscience.† (source)
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He was not bound, nor had they made any attempt to handcuff him; this seemed a good augury.† (source)
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He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators who have attempted this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills me with cheerful auguries.† (source)
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And so the conclusion and augury which I draw, even though no philosopher, is this.† (source)
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Do you consult them for your auguries?† (source)
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