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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)
  • '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)
  • 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 'augury' doesn't begin O — R — G either.†  (source)
  • Of this sure auguries the gods bestow'd, When first our vessel anchor'd in your road.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • s might subdued: "Dreams, omens, auguries foreshow Our coming lot of weal and woe: But thou, my Ráma, couldst not see The grievous blow which falls on thee.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • We must consult the auguries before we decide what to do with him.†  (source)
  • And so the conclusion and augury which I draw, even though no philosopher, is this.†  (source)
  • And the Mysians were led of Chromis and Ennomos the augur, yet with all his auguries warded he not black fate from him, but was vanguished by the hand of fleet-footed Aiakides in the river, when he made havoc of the Trojans there and of the rest.†  (source)
  • She listened, finding in the sweet treble notes an augury for her future.†  (source)
  • Do you consult them for your auguries?†  (source)
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