How To Use Augury In A Sentence
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And by the way, Ganesha is an icon of good augury in almost all Asian countries.
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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
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These sales figures are a good augury for another profitable year.
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Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand.
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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
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His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury.
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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.
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In a general sense it is an unfortunate omen which is sometimes taken as an augury of death.
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Nevertheless, it was an infaust and sinister augury for Austin
The Caxtons — Volume 07
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But suddenly the sheer numbers of people quietly bedding down in doorways strikes me as an augury of Labour defeat.
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Amid the carnage and death, that unity is one augury of hope.
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But the fakery is a continuation of the campaign theme, and an augury for the future.
Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman faked it.
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(The jackal, or 'pathfinder' -- whose tracks sometimes lead to the remains of a food-animal slain by a lion, and many birds and insects, have a value of this kind.) "The use of animal totems for purposes of augury is, in all likelihood, of great antiquity.
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
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The looming spectres raised by her mother’s information, the wearing sense of being over-weighted in the race, were driving her to a Hamlet-like fantasticism and defiance of augury; moreover, she was abroad.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand.
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In Shakespeare, the word providence can refer to destiny or fate or a kind of augury.
Dangerous Illusions
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His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury.
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Another form of augury was the examination of the marks on the carapax of a tortoise; thus the Martial King in 146 consulted, and found unfavourable, such marks -- this was before attacking the last
Ancient China Simplified
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Like the birds of augury, the living beings of the heavens, having no lot or part with us, may serve incidentally to foreshow the future, but they have absolutely no main function in our regard.
The Six Enneads.
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His waistband claimed the azoth; it was possible that augury would provide some hint of what he ought to do with it.
Calde of the Long Sun
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As Hamlet remarked, ‘We defy augury… The readiness is all’.
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The looming spectres raised by her mother's information, the wearing sense of being over-weighted in the race, were driving her to a Hamlet-like fantasticism and defiance of augury; moreover, she was abroad.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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he hoped it was an augury
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She was thrice widowed, and she claimed to possess the gift of augury.
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A confirmation of this augury is the fact that the cast of the community became decidedly more Fourieristic before it disbanded; and it is not impossible that another generation might have decolorized and seriously deformed human existence among them.
A Study Of Hawthorne
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A brace of dead geese, embodying the classical Roman method of augury, act as an image of mortality.