Both Uses of
auspices
in
Little Dorrit
- Mrs Merdle's first husband had been a colonel, under whose auspices the bosom had entered into competition with the snows of North America, and had come off at little disadvantage in point of whiteness, and at none in point of coldness.†
Chpt 1.21 *
- It is for your sake that I wish you, under the auspices of Mrs General, to form a—hum—a surface.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
with oversight and favor