All 9 Uses
auspicious
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- 'At least pay the boy, then: I have no pice with me, and he brought auspicious news.†
Chpt 4auspicious = favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
- I chose an auspicious hour, and—perhaps thy Holy One has heard of the Abbot of the Lung-Cho lamassery.†
Chpt 4
- 'Doubly auspicious,' chirruped the old lady.†
Chpt 4
- Mahbub had business at Quetta, and there Kim, as Mahbub admitted, earned his keep, and perhaps a little over, by spending four curious days as scullion in the house of a fat Commissariat sergeant, from whose office-box, in an auspicious moment, he removed a little vellum ledger which he copied out—it seemed to deal entirely with cattle and camel sales—by moonlight, lying behind an outhouse, all through one hot night.†
Chpt 10
- 'Upon a Wednesday, and in the morning, to put on new clothes is auspicious,' said Mahbub solemnly.†
Chpt 10
- I would not take thee till the time was ripe and auspicious.
Chpt 11 *
- That is auspicious.†
Chpt 11
- He does not deny remedies, but I doubted for the child because of the in-auspicious colour of the bottles.'†
Chpt 12
- Born in an auspicious hour, and—but for that colic which, alas!†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(auspicious) favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)