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  • The drifting apart of Belgium's linguistic communities could augur the end for a country once hailed as a model of compromise and coexistence.†  (source)
  • It was that freak Octavian, the augur from Camp Jupiter, who was always screaming for war.  (source)
    augur = a character whose job is based upon that of an augur from ancient Roman -- a religious official who interpreted signs and omens to guide public decisions
  • The dead are not superstitious, not as a rule, but they watched her as a Roman Augur might have watched the sacred crows circle, seeking wisdom, seeking a clue.  (source)
    Augur = religious official of ancient Rome who interpreted signs and omens to guide public decisions
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  • The combination of last night's events, too much sun today and excessive amounts of alcohol this evening, will augur a great deal of guilt in the morning.  (source)
    augur = foreshadow or predict
  • ...and she shows me a yellow silken bird of the islands, the one that augurs mercy and good tidings, which now falls off its perch on the post of Stevie's tidy bed.  (source)
    augurs = predicts
  • The Our Lady crew saw this as a bad omen, but the Boston General crew assured their counterparts that a pale, diaphoretic Stone augured a good outcome (though in truth, they had never seen him quite so pale and weak, lying prostrate on the bench, a puke basin at his side).  (source)
    augured = predicted
  • Lady Jane had heard of the Colonel's arrival, and was waiting for her husband in the adjoining dining-room, with female instinct, auguring evil.†  (source)
  • Amazement universal, at that sight, 210 Seized the assembly, and with anxious thought Each scann'd the future; amidst whom arose The Hero Halitherses, antient Seer, Offspring of Mastor; for in judgment he Of portents augural, and in forecast Unerring, his coevals all excell'd, And prudent thus the multitude bespake.†  (source)
  • Between the weather and the Montenegrins' defeat, it didn't augur well for our own summit assault, scheduled to get under way in less than six hours.  (source)
    augur = suggest or indicate
  • The Augurs have never explained why they only choose one girl per generation for Blackcliff.†  (source)
  • Ladders were put up against the corner posts and holes augured into them.  (source)
    augured = drilled
  • I shall do well; The people love me, and the sea is mine; My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope Says it will come to the full.†  (source)
  • And truly I thought they were great things, painted to remark the end of an age and the beginning of something so different only a vision such as this might suffice to augur it.  (source)
    augur = predict
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  • DANFORTH, thinks, glances at Mary, then back to Abigail: Children, a very augur bit will now be turned into your souls until your honesty is proved.  (source)
    augur = a boring tool (like a drill)
  • He put a post-hole augur down through the subsoil to test and feel and smell the under earth.  (source)
    augur = drill
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