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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
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
Therefore begrudging neither augury Nor other divination that is thine, O save thyself, thy country, and thy king, Save all from this defilement of blood shed.
Sophocles -- Oedipus the King

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