No, I still didn't look up the word "auguries" but I imagine it means the various and diverse occasions of innocence. From Wordnik.com. [A New Respect for William Blakes' Auguries of Innocence] Reference
They are bad auguries for our own futures as well. From Wordnik.com. [Beat the Devil] Reference
But even dreams and auguries can be misinterpreted. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterian Manifesto: Shakespeare, McGinn and Me] Reference
Josiah interpreted this as the happiest of auguries. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference
And yet the political auguries are pretty easy to read. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Group Dynamics] Reference
There are five kinds of auguries mentioned in authors -- 1st. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Hundred were auguries of an approaching further acquaintance with the. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
Were you, astute and keen reader of auguries, afraid of being found out?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
To the use of lots and auguries, they are addicted beyond all other nations. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
But after many auguries and a consultation of the prophetic books, Caesar won. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Ch ` ung discourses at great length on the nature and the form of these auguries. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
Of Omens or Portents there are auspicious and inauspicious ones, lucky or unlucky auguries. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
However, as if to confound the auguries, the first news that met him was of life and fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
But – today at least – the auguries for a fresh start in London could scarcely be better. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
It is an article on the reading of signs and auguries in all ages to discover the intentions of the. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
But in any result, foremost amongst the auguries of hope was this -- that the evil example of Mr O '. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Presidential term the career which had begun with such happy auguries had become a political tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
He saw in the young man high traits of character, and in his rare gifts auguries of a splendid career. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
But from ancient times, omens, charms, and auguries have held considerable sway over the destinies of men. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Fates, and then, Mopsus having taken the auguries, and found them auspicious, the heroes stepped on board. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Reading some analysts 'interpretations of Dow Theory is like auguries taken from the entrails of sacrificed goats. From Wordnik.com. [Interlocking Markets and Their Analysts] Reference
The moment the House was confirmed in legal sitting by the sacrifice and auguries, out went Sulla's hand for the scroll. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Objection 1: It would seem that divination by auguries, omens, and by like observations of external things is not unlawful. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
I, whom visions and auguries shake not -- who am firm in my purpose as the living rock -- I should have fought the combat myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
She spoke rather in the tone of one hoping against evil auguries than as one indulging in any confident anticipations of the future. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Those who fail to listen to the soothsayers or neglect to pay attention to auguries in dreams are condemned to die for their failure. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterian Manifesto: Shakespeare, McGinn and Me] Reference
Cheering auguries there were in plenty, but we guardedly declined to be cheered, and pretended to snigger sceptically at the auguries. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
Wang Ch ` ung gives to the Han dynasty the preference over all the others, and again discourses on the lucky auguries marking its reign. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
It will be recalled how the statesman Fox rejoiced at the fall of the Bastile, and what auguries of hope he saw in the event (see p. 652). From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
In like manner pay no attention to auguries, and sneezings; and when you are on a journey pay no attention to the singing of certain little birds. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The blurted words were one of the most fearsome auguries of my will to self-destruction: within a week I would be writing, in a stupor of disbelief, suicide notes. From Wordnik.com. ['An Interior Pain That Is All But Indescribable'] Reference
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