augury

How To Use augury In A Sentence

• And by the way, Ganesha is an icon of good augury in almost all Asian countries.
• Hastily, before there could be brooding on the augury, the four horsemen, appointed to asperse the plain, galloped to its four corners with their bloody offerings. Funeral Games
• These sales figures are a good augury for another profitable year.
• Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand.
• His reply was that his son Ninan Cuyoche was to succeed, if the augury of the _calpa_ gave signs that such succession would be auspicious, if not his son Huascar was to succeed. History of the Incas
• His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury.
• Meteorologists have responded by transforming daily weather prediction from an augury into a reliable source of important information - a splendid achievement that nearly everyone takes for granted.
• In a general sense it is an unfortunate omen which is sometimes taken as an augury of death.
• Nevertheless, it was an infaust and sinister augury for Austin The Caxtons — Volume 07
• But suddenly the sheer numbers of people quietly bedding down in doorways strikes me as an augury of Labour defeat.