Linda delved into augury before making plans for her vacation. From LearnThat.org.
He hoped it was an augury. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I hoped the augury was a true one, but there were times when I doubted. From Wordnik.com. [A Virginia Scout] Reference
Checked "augury" in my 1963 Webster's 7th New Collegiate Dictionary - the very same one I used in college all these years ago. From Wordnik.com. [A New Respect for William Blakes' Auguries of Innocence] Reference
"augury"; while the third consists in doing something in order to discover the occult; and this belongs to "sortilege.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
But then, what signs of evil augury had greeted him!. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
The descent was easy, according to Antoine's augury. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
No art of augury I need, nor heart of victims slain. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
And so his appearance was of good augury for everyone. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
'The gods prosper our undertaking and their own augury!. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
We were careful not to interrupt this feast of good augury. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
"I congratulate you, Lady Mary, on so favourable an augury," said. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
'Domestic disorganization is a sure augury of political disruption.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
This was the augury the priestess drew, and wondered greatly at the sign. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
To see the newly-arisen sun on Easter morning was an augury of good luck. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
It is a fatal augury for a room that plants cannot be made to thrive in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
I was always superstitious, and this augury, just at that moment, affected me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
These symptoms, which he considered a bad augury, increased Octave's irritation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
'Not a whit; we defy augury; there is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
For awhile, however, I regarded the meeting as a happy augury -- a lucky coincidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
It seemed an augury of happiness as he walked alone about the fields, and dwelt upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
The words had come to her as the interpretation of an augury, the fulfilment of a promise. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
But that dark cloud had its silver lining; it was even converted into an augury of success. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The historian remarks, as a good augury, that a violent storm had raged for three days before. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
The lover supposes his lady acquainted with the ancient laws of augury and rites of sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
The clerk was right in his augury as to the effect his intelligence would have upon the creditor. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
The custom of making tests to learn the future comes from the old system of augury from sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
His not marrying was in itself a good augury, and his little fiancee was reaching a marriageable age. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He once again recalled Noppawan's summary of an incident that should have been an augury to them both. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The announced programmes of reforms, striking at many of the evils known to exist, are an augury of better things. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
He had observed, on the contrary, that nine times in ten the scintillation of stars was an augury of fine weather. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Recourse was had to augury, the day before the wedding, to ascertain whether the married life was to be prosperous. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
He was now suspected of being fallible; and, what seemed of worse augury, he was beginning himself to suspect as much. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
His coming to take full command of the Union forces was an augury of success to every loyal citizen of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Romans certainly had a similar habit, but far from attaching any ill-omen to the sneeze they regarded it as of good augury. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
"Ay, ay, sir!" gleefully rejoined the boatswain, forgetting the augury, and everything else, in the excitement of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Washington received the whole sixty-nine; and our government began with the happy augury of an unanimous choice for its head. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation in a Nutshell] Reference
Some think that he chose this number of officers from that of the birds, which in the augury had portended the kingdom to him. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
The trick of augury invests it, at a glance, with the sum of its possibilities, the augurs all sincere, confident, and exulting. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
May her highness deign to accept the so happy augury of present ill luck bringing good fortune throughout a long and happy life. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Altogether it was a great success as a celebration and a happy augury of the future into which it ushered the expectant Patricia. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
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